Fig. 1: Design of organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral sulfur-containing calix[4]arenes. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Design of organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral sulfur-containing calix[4]arenes.

From: Enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral sulfur-containing calix[4]arenes via chiral sulfide catalyzed desymmetrizing aromatic sulfenylation

Fig. 1: Design of organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral sulfur-containing calix[4]arenes.

a State of the art of asymmetric electrophilic sulfenylation of arenes. b Previous work on catalytic asymmetric synthesis of inherently chiral calix[4]arenes. c Our design for organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral calix[4]arenes via an intermolecular electrophilic sulfenylation reaction. d Chiral sulfide catalyzed sulfenylation of calix[4]arenes. HFIP hexafluoroisopropanol.

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