Chemical Communications

Biomimetic trifunctional organocatalyst showing a great acceleration for the transesterification between vinyl ester and alcohol

T Ema, D Tanida, T Matsukawa, T Sakai

Index: Ema, Tadashi; Tanida, Daisuke; Matsukawa, Tatsuya; Sakai, Takashi Chemical Communications, 2008 , # 8 p. 957 - 959

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Abstract

The creation of an organic compound with an enormous catalytic power like an enzyme is an important and exciting subject. Using useful synthetic methods and accumulated mechanistic knowledge, chemists have tried to create artificial enzymes with high catalytic activity. 1,2 A rapidly growing area related to this subject is asymmetric organocatalysis, 3–10 which is aimed at synthetic application. Although some of the organocatalysts developed so far can work in very ...