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Chiral Acyclic Diaminocarbene Complexes: a New Opportunity for Gold Asymmetric Catalysis
Author(s) -
Barbazanges Marion,
Fensterbank Louis
Publication year - 2012
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.201200224
Subject(s) - cycloisomerization , enantioselective synthesis , catalysis , tandem , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , composite material
Lucky bag: Suitably substituted acyclic diaminocarbene (ADC) ligands were demonstrated to generate a chiral pocket around linear gold(I) complexes. These new catalysts were used to perform the very first catalytic enantioselective cycloisomerization/ acetalization tandem reaction.