Inversion of the Axial Information during Oxidative Aromatization in the Synthesis of Axially Chiral Biaryls with Organocatalysis as a Key Step

Seitaro Koshino; Akira Takikawa; Keiichi Ishida; Tohru Taniguchi; Kenji Monde; Eunsang Kwon; Shigenobu Umemiya; Yujiro Hayashi

doi:10.1002/chem.202000777

Inversion of the Axial Information during Oxidative Aromatization in the Synthesis of Axially Chiral Biaryls with Organocatalysis as a Key Step

Chemistry. 2020 Apr 6;26(20):4436. doi: 10.1002/chem.202000777.

Authors

Seitaro Koshino¹, Akira Takikawa¹, Keiichi Ishida¹, Tohru Taniguchi², Kenji Monde², Eunsang Kwon³, Shigenobu Umemiya¹, Yujiro Hayashi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
² Frontier Research Center of Advanced Material and, Life Science Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
³ Research and Analytical Center for Giant Molecules, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.

PMID: 32250025
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000777

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Yujiro Hayashi at the University of Tohoku University. The image depicts the spinning motion of a figure skater, which illustrates the transformation of the chiral information investigated in this work. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.201905814.