Issue 22, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Chiral iron complex catalyzed enantioselective oxidation of racemic benzoins†‡

Pandi Muthupandi,a   Santosh Kumar Alamsettia  and  Govindasamy Sekar*a  

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a Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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Abstract

An efficient, economic and environmentally friendly enantioselective oxidation of racemic benzoins (α-hydroxy ketones) catalyzed by a chiral iron complex has been developed using molecular oxygen as a terminal oxidant with good selectivity and excellent enantiomeric excess.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B904021H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Feb 2009
Accepted
30 Mar 2009
First published
27 Apr 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 3288-3290

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Chiral iron complex catalyzed enantioselective oxidation of racemic benzoins

P. Muthupandi, S. K. Alamsetti and G. Sekar, Chem. Commun., 2009, 3288 DOI: 10.1039/B904021H

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