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Synthesis of chiral diferrocenyl diselenides and their application to asymmetric reactions

Y Nishibayashi, JD Singh, S Uemura, S Fukuzawa

Index: Nishibayashi; Nishibayashi, Yoshiaki; Singh; Singh, Jai Deo; Uemura; Uemura, Sakae; Fukuzawa; Fukuzawa, Shin-Ichi Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 19 p. 3115 - 3118

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Abstract

Abstract Two optically active diferrocenyl diselenides, each of which possesses two chiral centers, were newly prepared from commercial 1-(dimethylamino) ethylferrocenes and applied to induce highly enantioselective selenoxide elimination producing axially chiral allenecarboxylic esters.