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reported the chiral ionic liquid with pyrrolidine-imidazolium combined cation [16] and the application as an
asymmetric catalyst for the asymmetric Michael reaction.
Therefore, air and space contributions provide an
asymmetric catalyst for economic, thus human, advancement.
"No one has reached that level of selectivity before with a heterogeneous
asymmetric catalyst."
Despite the huge number of chiral homogeneous metal complexes that catalyze asymmetric processes with high enantioselectivities, the corresponding heterogeneous
asymmetric catalysts are few and far between.
Also, the results of preliminary experiments on Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of ketones using synthesized compounds as chiral ligands in the
asymmetric catalysts are presented.