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Two‐Component Liquid Crystals as Chiral Reaction Media: Highly Enantioselective Photodimerization of an Anthracene Derivative Driven by the Ordered Microenvironment
Author(s) -
Ishida Yasuhiro,
Kai Yukiko,
Kato Syunya,
Misawa Aya,
Amano Sayaka,
Matsuoka Yuki,
Saigo Kazuhiko
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200803242
Subject(s) - anthracene , enantioselective synthesis , derivative (finance) , amphiphile , component (thermodynamics) , chemistry , alcohol , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , polymer , copolymer , financial economics , economics , thermodynamics
Tailored to the reaction : Within a liquid‐crystalline matrix provided by a chiral amphiphilic amino alcohol, the photodimerization of an anthracenecarboxylic acid proceeds with high probability and with excellent regio‐, diastereo‐, and enantioselectivities (up to 81 % ee ).