Bismuth has recently attracted the attention of the chemistry community for its potential as an environmentally-friendly catalyst. Even though a wide variety of racemic bismuth-catalyzed reactions have been developed, few enantioselective reactions that utilize bismuth are known. The current asymmetric bismuth-catalyzed reactions typically depend on a strong metal-ligand bond, which decreases the metal’s Lewis acidity. Instead, our group has created chiral bismuth catalysts with anionic ligands designed to dissociate that contain BINOL-derived phosphate diesters. To the best of our knowledge, these types of bismuth complexes are as of yet unknown. This poster will describe our investigation of the catalytic activity of these novel complexes for carbon-nitrogen bond forming reactions.

Synthesis, design & reactivity of bismuth(III)-chiral anion complexes

251st National Meeting (2016)

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