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The First Optically Active Cluster: Resolution of Enantiomers and Absolute Configuration of SFeCoMoCp(CO)8

Felix Richter, Heinrich Vahrenkamp

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Clusters with inherent optical activity were hitherto unknown. It has now proved possible to resolve the chiral cluster (1) into the enantiomers (1a) and (1b) via diastereomers with the phosphane (R)-PMePrPh. The ready accessibility of the three metal atoms in the thermally and configuratively stable enantiomeric clusters suggests the possibility of optical induction, e.g. in catalyses.

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Clusters with inherent optical activity were hitherto unknown. It has now proved possible to resolve the chiral cluster (1) into the enantiomers (1a) and (1b) via diastereomers with the phosphane (R)-PMePrPh. The ready accessibility of the three metal atoms in the thermally and configuratively stable enantiomeric clusters suggests the possibility of optical induction, e.g. in catalyses.

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Clusters with inherent optical activity were hitherto unknown. It has now proved possible to resolve the chiral cluster (1) into the enantiomers (1a) and (1b) via diastereomers with the phosphane (R)-PMePrPh. The ready accessibility of the three metal atoms in the thermally and configuratively stable enantiomeric clusters suggests the possibility of optical induction, e.g. in catalyses.

Key concepts: Enantiomer, Diastereomer, Absolute configuration, Cluster (spacecraft), Optically active, Resolution (logic), Chemistry, Enantiomeric excess

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