Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Pulsed electroconversion for highly selective enantiomer synthesis

  • Chularat Wattanakit,
  • Thittaya Yutthalekha,
  • Sunpet Asssavapanumat,
  • Veronique Lapeyre,
  • Alexander Kuhn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02190-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Synthesis of chiral molecules mostly relies on asymmetric catalysis. Here, the authors developed a pulsed electrochemical method to convert a prochiral ketone into the corresponding chiral alcohols with very high enantioselectivity on chiral-imprinted mesoporous platinum.