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Synfacts 2005(0): 0041-0041  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-869909
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Organosilanols as Catalysts in Asymmetric Aryl Transfer Reactions

Contributor(s): Hisashi Yamamoto, Matthew Boxer
S. Özçubukçu, F. Schmidt, C. Bolm*
RWTH Aachen, Germany
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20 July 2005 (online)

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Significance

While chiral alcoholic reagents have found widespread use in organic synthesis, the silanol complement has found little. The authors have synthesized numerous ferrocene-based chiral silanols in good yields, and showed them to be competent catalysts for asymmetric aryl transfer reactions.