Validity of inorganic nanosheets as an efficient planar substituent to enhance the enantioselectivity of transition-metal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis.

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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Beisanhuan Dong Lu, Beijing 100029 (P.R. China), Fax: (+86) 10-64425385.

Published: September 2013

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Effectively enhancing the enantioselectivity is a persistent challenge in heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis. Here, the validity of a layered double hydroxides (LDH) nanosheet as an efficient planar substituent to enhance the enantioselectivity has been investigated theoretically; first in vanadium-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols, and then in zinc-catalyzed direct asymmetric aldol addition. The computational predication is further confirmed experimentally in zinc-catalyzed direct asymmetric aldol addition by controlling the location of catalytic sites.

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