DYNAMIC KINETIC RESOLUTION OF EPICHLOROHYDRIN VIA ENANTIOSELECTIVE CATALYTIC RING-OPENING WITH TMSN(3) - PRACTICAL SYNTHESIS OF ARYL OXAZOLIDINONE ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS
Se. Schaus et En. Jacobsen, DYNAMIC KINETIC RESOLUTION OF EPICHLOROHYDRIN VIA ENANTIOSELECTIVE CATALYTIC RING-OPENING WITH TMSN(3) - PRACTICAL SYNTHESIS OF ARYL OXAZOLIDINONE ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS, Tetrahedron letters, 37(44), 1996, pp. 7937-7940
The dynamic kinetic resolution of racemic epichlorohydrin has been ach
ieved via enantioselective asymmetric ring opening with TMSN(3) cataly
zed by the (salen)Cr(III)N-3 complex 1. The resulting 3-azido-1-chloro
-2-trimethylsiloxypropane product was obtained in high enantiomeric pu
rity and incorporated into the synthesis of U-100592, a representative
from a class of highly-promising aryl oxazolidinone antibacterial age
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