ChemInform Abstract: Catalytic Asymmetric Ring-Opening of meso-Aziridines with Malonates under Heterodinuclear Rare Earth Metal Schiff Base Catalysis.

✍ Scribed by Yingjie Xu; Luqing Lin; Motomu Kanai; Shigeki Matsunaga; Masakatsu Shibasaki

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 39 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201137026

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Fused as well as alkyl‐disubstituted aziridines undergo ring opening under catalysis of a complex derived from a 1:1:1 mixture of Broensted basic alkoxide La(OiPr)~3~, Lewis acidic triflate Yb(OTf)~3~, and axially chiral Schiff base BBN.