Asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes catalysed by chromium binaphthyl Schiff base complex supported on MCM-41

1 January 1999

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications

No. 18,p. 1789-1790
https://doi.org/10.1039/a905313a

Abstract

A chromium(III) binaphthyl Schiff base complex immobilised on modified MCM-41 is an effective catalyst for asymmetric epoxidation of unfunctionalised alkenes and gave significantly higher ee than the free complex.

Keywords

ALKENES
ASYMMETRIC EPOXIDATION
CHROMIUM
IMMOBILISED
UNFUNCTIONALISED
GAVE
CATALYSED

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