Silica-Immobilized Chiral Dirhodium (II) Catalyst for Enantioselective Carbenoid Reactions

…, Y Feng, NA Brunelli, CW Jones, HML Davies

Index: Davies; Nagashima; Klino 3rd. Organic letters, 2000 , vol. 2, # 6 p. 823 - 826

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Abstract

A silica-supported dirhodium (II) tetraprolinate catalyst was synthesized in four steps from l- proline and used in a range of enantioselective transformations of donor/acceptor carbenoids. These include cyclopropenation, cyclopropanation, tandem ylide formation/[2, 3]