Asymmetric aldol reactions catalyzed by tryptophan in water.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore.

Published: July 2006

Tryptophan was shown to be able to catalyze direct aldol reactions between various cyclic ketones and aromatic aldehydes in water with high enantioselectivity.

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