Synthesis, structure and application of chiral copper(II) coordination polymers for asymmetric acylation

Inorg Chem. 2008 Jun 16;47(12):5093-8. doi: 10.1021/ic800228c. Epub 2008 May 20.

Abstract

Chiral copper(II) coordination polymers 1a-c have been prepared by one-pot synthesis in high yield. Their single-crystal X-ray analysis showed that repeating units are connected to each other by carboxylate linker and copper(II) atoms are pentacoordinated with distorted square-pyramidal geometry for 1a-b and square-planar geometry for 1c. These polymers have catalyzed the kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols by acylation with up to 90% ee ( s = 50).