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Self‐Assembling Neodymium/Sodium Heterobimetallic Asymmetric Catalyst Confined in a Carbon Nanotube Network
Author(s) -
Ogawa Takanori,
Kumagai Naoya,
Shibasaki Masakatsu
Publication year - 2013
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.201302236
Subject(s) - catalysis , carbon nanotube , nanotube , enantioselective synthesis , materials science , amide , filtration (mathematics) , nanotechnology , carbon fibers , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , composite material , composite number , engineering , mathematics , statistics
Confined cat works better : A self‐assembling heterobimetallic catalyst, comprised of a Nd/Na/amide ligand confined in an entangled multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) network, outperforms the unconfined catalyst in anti ‐selective catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reactions. The confined catalyst could be used repeatedly through simple filtration, and was applied to a concise enantioselective synthesis of anacetrapib.