Synlett 2013; 24(13): 1728-1734
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1339286
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

(S)-Proline-Derived Catalysts for the Acylative Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols: A Remote Structural Change Allows a Complete Selectivity Switch

Oliver Gleeson
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland   Fax: +353(1)6712826   Email: connons@tcd.ie
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Yurii K. Gun’ko
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland   Fax: +353(1)6712826   Email: connons@tcd.ie
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Stephen J. Connon*
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland   Fax: +353(1)6712826   Email: connons@tcd.ie
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Publication History

Received: 03 May 2013

Accepted after revision: 27 May 2013

Publication Date:
15 July 2013 (online)


Abstract

A systematic preliminary study has identified a suite of catalysts, all readily prepared and derived from (S)-proline, which differ by a remote substituent only. If this substituent is capable of hydrogen-bond donation the catalyst will promote the resolution of secondary alcohols with the opposite sense of enantiodiscrimination to that observed when the substituent is capable of accepting hydrogen bonds.

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