S or R depends on the priority of the incoming group. The concept of prochirality is necessary for understanding some aspects of enzyme stereospecificity...

and by Wrinch that were widely discussed in the 1940s. The concept of prochirality is necessary for understanding some aspects of enzyme stereospecificity...

determine if a person is suffering shock si, a chemical descriptor; See prochirality Silicon, symbol Si, a chemical element Disulfur diiodide, empirical formula...

transfer it from below. Since the C4 carbon that accepts the hydrogen is prochiral, this can be exploited in enzyme kinetics to give information about the...

than 100% purity, typically 95% glycerol. Although achiral, glycerol is prochiral with respect to reactions of one of the two primary alcohols. Thus, in...

stereoselectivity of this reaction was further investigated through study of prochiral methylene hydrogen discrimination. This is due to the extra chiral center...

groups that can be prochiral and readily susceptible to oxidation include certain alkenes and thioethers. Challenging but pervasive prochiral substrates are...

Desymmetrization is a chemical reaction that converts prochiral substrates into chiral products. Desymmetrisations are so pervasive that they are rarely...

Corey–Bakshi–Shibata (CBS) reduction, is a chemical reaction in which a prochiral ketone is enantioselectively reduced to produce the corresponding chiral...

are equivalent except that one is "pro-R" and the other "pro-S" (see Prochirality).: 393  At this point, the intermediate is rotated 180°. This rotation...

(R)-enantiomer. However, one should note that adding a chemical group to the prochiral center from the Re-face will not always lead to an (S)-stereocenter, as...

Bischler–Napieralski reaction. Electrophilic aromatic substitutions with prochiral carbon electrophiles have been adapted for asymmetric synthesis by switching...

metal-propylene complexes, which are intermediates in these processes. Propylene is prochiral, meaning that binding of a reagent (such as a metal electrophile) to the...

coarctate transition state. Chiral epoxides are produced by epoxidation of prochiral alkenes. When the catalyst is chiral or the alkene is chiral, then asymmetric...

stereoselectivity of this reaction was further investigated through study of prochiral methylene hydrogen discrimination. This is due to the extra chiral center...

require any transition metals. Asymmetric synthesis is possible from prochiral electrophiles. The product's dense functionalization enables many further...

Baeyer–Villiger oxidations. The first reported instance of one such oxidation of a prochiral ketone used dioxygen as the oxidant with a copper catalyst. Other catalysts...

electrophile in organic synthesis. In addition reactions acetaldehyde is prochiral. It is used primarily as a source of the "CH3C+H(OH)" synthon in aldol...

catalysts are also used in asymmetric synthesis by the hydrogenation of prochiral substrates. An early demonstration of this approach was the Rh-catalyzed...

cyanoborohydride. Since imines derived from unsymmetrical ketones are prochiral, their reduction defines a route to chiral amines. Unhindered aldimines...

whereby only one of two possible enantiomeric products are generated from a prochiral substrate, rely on electrophilic fluorination reagents. Illustrative of...

over a copper chromite catalyst: C6H5C(O)CH3 + H2 → C6H5CH(OH)CH3 Being prochiral, acetophenone is also a popular test substrate for asymmetric hydrogenation...

which means that they can be used for the enantioselective hydrolysis prochiral diesters. Several procedures have been reported for applications in the...

liquid is the methyl ester of pyruvic acid. It has attracted interest as a prochiral precursor to alanine and lactic acid. It is prepared by esterification...

aldol condensations, oxidations, etc. It is the simplest aldehyde with a prochiral methylene such that α-functionalized derivatives (CH3CH(X)CHO) are chiral...

schemes. In cases where the Grignard reagent is adding to an aldehyde or a prochiral ketone, the Felkin-Anh model or Cram's Rule can usually predict which...

used to establish sp3-stereocenters from allylic diazenes containing prochiral stereocenters. The influence of the alkoxy stereocenter results in diastereoselective...

pyridine compound is a better leaving group than a carboxylate ion. For prochiral cyclic anhydrides, the alcoholysis reaction can be conducted asymmetrically...

Greg; Simpkins, Nigel S. (1990-01-01). "Asymmetric deprotonation of prochiral ketones using chiral lithium amide bases". Tetrahedron. 46 (2): 523–544...

HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitor. Lithium acetylide is added to a prochiral ketone to yield a chiral alcohol product. The structure of the active...