Asymmetric aldol reactions catalyzed by tryptophan in water.
Tryptophan was shown to be able to catalyze direct aldol reactions between various cyclic ketones and aromatic aldehydes in water with high enantioselectivity.
Jiang
Zhaoqin
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Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore.
Liang
Zhian
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Wu
Xiaoyu
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Lu
Yixin
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