Open AccessProgress of Enantioselective Nitrile Biotransformations in Organic Synthesis
Author(s) -
MeiXiang Wang
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2009.331
Subject(s) - enantioselective synthesis , aziridine , nitrile , organic chemistry , chemistry , organic synthesis , combinatorial chemistry , catalysis , ring (chemistry)
Recent progress of enantioselective biotransformations of nitriles including various functionalized nitriles, ?-hydroxy and ?-amino nitriles, oxirane- and aziridine-containing carbonitriles is summarized in this short review article.