Inventors:
Eric N. Jacobsen - Boston MA
Makoto Tokunaga - Saitama, JP
Jay F. Larrow - Irvine CA
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
C08D30100
US Classification:
549230, 502158, 540604, 544264, 548965, 548969, 549296, 549513, 549518, 562 64, 568866
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for stereoselective or regioselective chemical synthesis which generally comprises reacting a nucleophile and a chiral or prochiral cyclic substrate in the presence of a non-racemic, chiral catalyst to produce a stereoisomerically- and/or regioisomerically-enriched product. The present invention also relates to hydrolytic kinetic resolutions of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of epoxides.