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Chemoselectivity in Asymmetric Aminocatalysis
Author(s) -
Marigo Mauro,
Melchiorre Paolo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201000110
Subject(s) - chemoselectivity , reactivity (psychology) , polarity (international relations) , chemistry , catalysis , combinatorial chemistry , nanotechnology , computer science , materials science , organic chemistry , medicine , biochemistry , alternative medicine , pathology , cell
Water makes the difference: Recent efforts to discover new strategies and principles for controlling chemoselectivity have shown how the inherent polarity of substrates and catalysts may be exploited to differentiate between aldehydic substrates with otherwise nearly identical reactivity profiles.