Asymmetric Catalysis

The rate of advance in areas of science is seldom constant. Usually certain fields effloresce with activity because of the ~ealization that solutions are possible to long standing important problems. So it is now with asymmetric catalysis, a field which promises to change profoundly the strategic th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bosnich, B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
Series:NATO Science Series E:, Applied Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 3. Potential Chirons of Economic Importance
  • 4. Examples of Target Molecules which have been more Economically Prepared by Asymmetric Synthesis
  • 8 - Future Trends
  • 1. Enzymes and Microbes
  • 2. Inorganic Systems
  • 3. Purely Organic Catalysts
  • 1 - General Principles
  • 1. Catalysis
  • 2. Turnover Limiting Step
  • 3. Origin of Catalysis
  • 4. Catalytic Cycles
  • 5. Classification of Catalysts
  • 6. Asymmetric Synthesis
  • 7. Asymmetric Discrimination
  • 8. Reactant Control and Product Control in the Enantio- selective Step
  • References
  • 2 - Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Formation
  • 1. Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation
  • References
  • 2. Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones
  • References
  • 3. Asymmetric Double Bond Migration
  • References
  • 4. Asymmetric Hydrosilation
  • References
  • 3 - Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
  • 1. Hydroformylation
  • References
  • 2. Asymmetric Hydrocarboxylation
  • References
  • 3. Asymmetric Hydrocyanation
  • References
  • 4. Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation
  • References
  • 5. Asymmetric Grignard Cross-Coupling
  • References
  • 6. Asymmetric Cyclopropanation
  • References
  • 7. Catalytic Asymmetric Codimerization
  • References
  • 1. Catalytic Asymmetric Cyclodimerization, Skeletal Rearrangement and Telomerization and Asymmetric [3+2]-Cycloaddition
  • References
  • 2. Asymmetric Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reaction
  • References
  • 4 - Asymmetric Oxidation
  • 1. Asymmetric Epoxidation
  • References
  • 2. Asymmetric Oxidation of Sulfides
  • References
  • 5 - Heterogeneous and Polymer Supported Catalysts
  • 1. Impregnated Heterogeneous Catalysts
  • 2. Electrochemical Asymmetric Reduction
  • References
  • 3. Polymer Supported Catalysts
  • References
  • 6 - Asymmetric Catalysis by Biochemical Systems
  • (i) Classification of Enzyme Reactions
  • (ii) Coenzymes
  • (iii) Fermentative vs. Enzymic Processes
  • (iv) Enantiotopic Group Differentiation
  • (v) Immobilized Enzymes and Cells
  • (vi) Range of Applicability of Enzymes
  • References
  • 7 - Economic Significance of Asymmetric Catalysis
  • 1. Economic Advantages of Asymmetric Synthesis
  • 2. Intramolecular Aldol Condensations of Hajos and Eder
  • References