80. Enantioselective olefin epoxidation using novel biphenyl and binaphthyl azepines and azepinium salts
    Jérôme Vachon, Cédric Lauper, Klaus Ditrich, Jérôme Lacour
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2006, 17, 2334-2338

Homologous biphenyl and (diastereomeric) binaphthyl tertiary azepines and quaternary iminium salts were prepared from (S)- and (R)-3,3-dimethylbutan-2-amine. Both the amines and iminium ions behave as effective catalysts for the enantioselective epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins (ee up to 87%).

DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2006.08.018 

open archive unige:7058