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Feng Ligand: Privileged Chiral Ligand in Asymmetric Catalysis
Ming-Yang Wang,
Wei Li,
Ming-Yang Wang
Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027 China
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Wei Li
Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027 China
E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorMing-Yang Wang,
Wei Li,
Ming-Yang Wang
Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027 China
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Wei Li
Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027 China
E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Catalysts and ligands possessing the great ability to tolerate over a wide range of mechanistically unrelated reactions are remarked as "privileged", which are rather scarce but extremely meaningful in asymmetric catalysis. Feng and co-workers have developed a library of conformationally flexible, C2-symmetric N,N'-dioxide amide compounds with original design and featured structure (named as Feng ligand now). They were initially reported as chiral organocatalysts in 2005 and have been further developed as a new class of privileged chiral ligands since 2006. Tremendous success, including versatile coordination chemistry with plenty of metal sources (main-group metals, transition metals, and rare-earth metals), a truly broad scope of asymmetric reactions (more than 50 types), diverse areas of catalysis (organocatalysis, Lewis-acid catalysis, bimetallic relay catalysis, and photocatalysis), numerous synthetic applications of bioactive compounds, has been achieved using Feng N,N'-dioxide. Besides, they demonstrate that chiral ligands with conformationally flexible property can offer excellent chiral environment as well, which challenges the conventional idea preferring rigid structures in the design of chiral ligands. Herein, we briefly introduced the discovery of Feng ligand and the millstones during the development. We also covered the successful applications of Feng ligand by other scientists as well as novel chiral ligands inspired by them.
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