Magnesium oxide-catalysed reaction of carbon dioxide with an epoxide with retention of stereochemistry
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 12,p. 1129-1130
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a608102i
Abstract
Magnesium oxide is an efficient catalyst for the cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxides under mild conditions; the reaction of carbon dioxide with (R)-styrene oxide in the presence of magnesium oxide gives (R)-phenyl carbonate in 97% ee with retention of stereochemistry.Keywords
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