Asymmetric reactions in continuous flow

• Xiao Yin Mak,
• Paola Laurino and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 19, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.19

• observed to be higher in the microreactor. A single-channel, falling film microreactor designed specifically for efficient gas-liquid phase contact was used to screen the asymmetric hydrogenation of (Z)-methyl acetamidocinnamate 4 and related substrates (Scheme 2) [13][14]. Seventeen chiral phosphines were

• alternative reaction medium to traditional organic solvents is attractive not only for environmental reasons, but also because of its high miscibility with gases, and its ease of removal from the product (simply by depressurization) [46]. In an early example of asymmetric hydrogenation in flow, ethyl pyruvate

• was reduced using a cinchonidine-modified Pt/Al2O3 catalyst in a fixed bed reactor in both supercritical carbon dioxide and ethane [47]. Poliakoff and co-workers have investigated the continuous asymmetric hydrogenation of dimethyl itaconate in scCO2 [48][49]. By using the catalyst [Rh(COD)2(nbd

Large- scale ruthenium- and enzyme- catalyzed dynamic kinetic resolution of (rac)-1-phenylethanol

• Krisztián Bogár,
• Belén Martín-Matute and
• Jan-E. Bäckvall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 50, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-50

• natural products. [1][2][3][4] A few methods have been developed for the enantioselective synthesis of chiral alcohols including catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and enantioselective hydride addition [15][16] of prochiral ketones, asymmetric dialkylzinc addition to