P-Tu-B-17 Study of DMSO Driven Enhanced Enentosectivity

Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)
Bhavna Trivedi and Shardul Bhatt, The M.S.University of Baroda, India.
The comparison of the asymmetric epoxidation of styrene   catalyzed by 1-( α- amino benzyl) -2 – napthol coordinated with Cu (II) carried out in ACN and DMSO revealed a decisive role of solvent on the enantioselectivity, giving 80% ee in DMSO against 28% ee in ACN for R-styrene epoxide.

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