Indium-bipyridine-catalyzed, enantioselective thiolysis of meso-epoxides.
The indium-bipyridine-catalyzed, enantioselective ring-opening of meso-epoxides with aliphatic and aromatic thiols furnished 1,2-mercapto alcohols in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities; the crystal structure of the chiral catalyst reveals a pentagonal-bipyramidal coordination geometry around the indium center.
Nandakumar
Mecheril Valsan
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Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Johannisallee 29, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Tschöp
Andreas
A
Krautscheid
Harald
H
Schneider
Christoph
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