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Natural Sciences, Chemical Biology, Chemistry +8

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“Synthetic Enzymes”. Highly Stereoselective Epoxidation of Chalcone in a Triphasic Toluene‐Water‐Poly[(S)‐alanine] System

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Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry +1

Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones Promoted by Lanthanoid Complexes

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Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +13

Highly enantioselective synthesis of cyclic and functionalized α-amino acids by means of a chiral phase transfer catalyst

E. J. Corey, Mark C. Noe, Feng Xu · Tetrahedron Letters · 1998 · 253 citations

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