Green Approaches To Asymmetric Catalytic Synthesis

• Main Author: Patti, Angela (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science, 4
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Environmental chemistry.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Environmental Chemistry.

Nowadays, chirality is  widely accepted as an important factor in molecular recognition processes and the biological activity of many pharmaceutical drugs and agrochemicals; this is confirmed by the continuous need for synthetic methods which lead to single or enriched enantiomers of such compounds....

Table of Contents:

• Methods for the preparation of optically active chiral compounds
• “Green” asymmetric synthesis: the catalysts
• Alternative solvents and recycle of the catalyst
• Technological tools and design of new chemical processes
• Technological tools and design of new chemical processes.