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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks MOFs
Published on: January 17, 2020
Profluorescent substrates for the screening of olefin metathesis catalysts
Raphael Reuter1, Thomas R Ward1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 51, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Herein we report on a 96-well plate assay based on the fluorescence resulting from the ring-closing metathesis of two profluorophoric substrates. To demonstrate the validity of the approach, four commercially available ruthenium-metathesis catalysts were evaluated in six different solvents. The results from the fluorescent assay agree well with HPLC conversions, validating the usefulness of the approach.
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