ORGN 580 |
| Water is an attractive environmentally benign solvent and due to solubility reasons mandatory for the transformation of underivatized biomolecules. Avoiding the typical time-consuming, waste generating protection and deprotection steps, regioselective transformation of highly water-soluble biomolecules is targeted. Towards this end, incorporation of water-soluble substituents into the ligand backbone of a transition metal catalyst appears a promising strategy. We therefore chose the oxidation of catechol derivatives as model reaction for the catalyst design and report herein the recent achievements regarding the synthesis of new ligands, their metal complexes and initial results on catalytic activity. |
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Heterocycles, Aromatics, Metal-Mediated Reactions and Syntheses, Materials, Devices, and Switches
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- Ex. Hall B4, Poster
Division of Organic Chemistry |