Jas. Howell et al., ENZYMATIC GENERATION OF PLANAR CHIRALITY IN THE (ARENE)CR(CO)3 SERIES- EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND MODELING STUDIES, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 7(1), 1996, pp. 95-104
Hydrolysis using pig liver esterase of (benzene-1,2-diacetic ester)Cr(
CO)(3) complexes generates the half-ester in high enantiomeric purity.
The high enantioselectivity may he rationalised through substrate int
eraction with the Jones active site model of pig liver esterase.