Abstract
Chiral biferrocene-based bis(oxazoline) compounds, which have both planar and central chirality, are synthesized. The Cu(l)-complexes of the bis(oxazolinyl)biferrocenes were found to be conformationally flexible and have a wide bite angle (136a) by NMR and molecular modeling studies. The complexes catalyzed the intramolecular cyclopropanation reaction of ene- diazoacetates, and low to moderate enantioselectivities and decreased reactivity were observed, compared to known malonate-derived bis(oxazoline) systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 10079-10086 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 33 |
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| State | Published - 13 Aug 1999 |