Enantioselective ring opening of meso-ep
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Makoto Nakajima; Makoto Saito; Michinao Uemura; Shunichi Hashimoto
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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French
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An enantioselective ring opening of meso-epoxides with tetrachlorosilane in the presence of diisopropylethylamine exploiting chiral bipyridine N,N%-dioxides as catalysts affords the corresponding chlorohydrins in high enantioselectivities of up to 90% ee.