Efficient enhancement of copper-pyridineoxazoline catalysts through immobilization and process design

C Aranda, A Cornejo, JM Fraile, E García-Verdugo…

Index: Aranda; Cornejo; Fraile; Garcia-Verdugo; Gil; Luis; Mayoral; Martinez-Merino; Ochoa Green Chemistry, 2011 , vol. 13, # 4 p. 983 - 990

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Abstract

Copper-pyridineoxazoline (Cu-pyox) complexes are poor homogeneous catalysts for asymmetric cyclopropanation reactions. Pyox ligands have been immobilized by polymerization of monomers possessing a vinyl group directly attached to position 6 with styrene and divinylbenzene. The corresponding heterogeneous catalysts show a significant enhancement in enantioselectivity, up to 7-fold that of the analogous homogeneous Cu- ...