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Dalton Trans., 2013, Advance Article
DOI:
10.1039/C2DT32202A
Received
21 Sep 2012,
Accepted
08 Oct 2012
First published online
10 Oct 2012
Vanadium-mediated enantioselective Friedel–Crafts (FC)-type reactions were established using the dinuclear vanadium complex (Ra,S,S)-1a. The vanadium complex promoted the FC-type reaction of imines with 2-naphthols or indoles to give corresponding adducts with high enantioselectivities.