Asymmetric epoxidation of styrenes catalyzed by molybdenum complexes with amino alcohol ligands

✍ Scribed by Yi Wang; Zhiqing Wu; Zhengkai Li; Xiang-Ge Zhou

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 517 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.03.048

✦ Synopsis

Two common amino alcohols, prolinol and isolucinol, and their derivatives have been screened to coordinate with MoO 2 (acac) 2 to form in situ catalysts for asymmetric epoxidation of styrenes with the highest enantioselectivity of 84% for 4-fluoro-styrene under the optimized reaction conditions.