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J Org Chem
; 83(1): 452-458, 2018 01 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29231721
ABSTRACT
Efficient kinetic resolution of racemic 1-indanol derivatives was achieved using triphenylchlorosilane by asymmetric silylation in the presence of chiral guanidine catalysts. The chiral guanidine catalyst (R,R)-N-(1-(ß-naphthyl)ethyl)benzoguanidine was found to be highly efficient as only 0.5 mol % catalyst loading was sufficient to catalyze the reaction of various substrates with appropriate conversion and high s-values (up to 89). This catalyst system was successfully applied to the gram-scale silylative kinetic resolution of racemic 1-indanol with high selectivity.