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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks MOFs
Published on: January 17, 2020
Supramolecularly fine-regulated enantioselective catalysts
Mónica Vaquero1, Laura Rovira, Anton Vidal-Ferran
1Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) & The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avgda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. avidal@iciq.cat.
Abstract:
The use of supramolecular interactions in catalysis has undergone major growth in the last decade and has contributed to the major advances achieved in the field of enantioselective catalysis. Of the various approaches that use supramolecular interactions in enantioselective catalysis, this article highlights different supramolecular strategies to generate a set of enantiopure ligands (or enantioselective catalysts) that retain the majority of the backbone's structural features, yet at the same time incorporate subtle changes at its active site that depend on the structural characteristics of the regulation agent (RA) employed.
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