Enantioselective oxazaborolidine reduction of ketones containing heteroatoms

Highly enantioselective borane reduction of ketones catalyzed by chiral oxazaborolidines. Mechanism and synthetic implications

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A stable and easily prepared catalyst for the enantioselective reduction of ketones. Applications to multistep syntheses

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Specification of the stereospecificity of some oxido-reductases by diamond lattice sections

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An efficient and catalytically enantioselective route to (S)-(-)-phenyloxirane

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Asymmetric synthesis via axially dissymmetric molecules. 6. Rational designing of efficient chiral reducing agents. Highly enantioselective reduction of aromatic ketones by binaphthol-modified lithium aluminum hydride reagents

Ryōji Noyori, I. Tomino, Yoshifumi Tanimoto et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1984 · 343 citations

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