Enantioselective Aerobic Oxidation of Sulfides Catalyzed by Optically Active. BETA.-Oxo Aldiminatomanganese (III) Complexes.

…, K Imagawa, T Yamada, T Mukaiyama

Index: Nagata, Takushi; Imagawa, Kiyomi; Yamada, Tohru; Mukaiyama, Teruaki Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1995 , vol. 68, # 11 p. 3241 - 3246

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Abstract

Enantioselective aerobic oxidation of sulfides into optically active sulfoxides was achieved by using pivalaldehyde in the presence of a catalytic amount of optically active β-oxo aldiminatomanganese (III) complexes. An acylperoxomanganese complex, formed from the original manganese complex, molecular oxygen, and pivalaldehyde, was supposed to be a key intermediate in the present oxidation. The crystal structure of chloro-{N, N′-bis [3-oxo ...