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Published December 17, 2012 in Henry Rzepa's Blog

Part one on this topic showed how a quantum mechanical model employing just one titanium centre was not successful in predicting the stereochemical outcome of the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation.

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Colloid and Surface ChemistryBiochemistryGeneral ChemistryCatalysis

Solution structure elucidation of early transition metal polyoxoalkoxides using oxygen-17 NMR spectroscopy

https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00021a068

Published October 1, 1991 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Authors V. W. Day, T. A. Eberspacher, W. G. Klemperer, C. W. Park, F. S. Rosenberg

Why the Sharpless epoxidation is enantioselective!

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Solution structure elucidation of early transition metal polyoxoalkoxides using oxygen-17 NMR spectroscopy