Intrazeolite assembly of a chiral manganese salen epoxidation catalyst

Abstract

Asymmetric manganese salen epoxidation catalysts are assembled and trapped in a multistep synthesis in the cages of zeolite EMT; these heterogeneous catalysts produce high enantiomeric excess in the epoxidation of aromatic alkenes with NaOCl.

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