Highly efficient ortho-fluoro-dimeric cinchona-derived phase-transfer catalysts

  • Published : 2003.04.01

Abstract

A series of cinchona alkaloid-derived dimeric quaternary ammonium salts were prepared as chiral phase-transfer catalysts by the introduction of various functional groups on the phenyl ligand. Among them. the 2-F-substituted derivative 21 showed the highest enantioselectivity in the alkylation of the glycine anion equivalent 1 (97->99 % ee).

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