Studies toward copper catalyzed asymmetric nitroaldol and iron catalyzed thia michael aldol cascade reactions

Abstract

The thesis contains four chapters Chapter I describes a brief literature survey on asymmetric metal catalysis utilizing chiral tetradentate salen salan salelan ligands and tridentate aminoalcohol derived ligands Chapter II focuses on the sythesis of chiral Cu II complexes bearing salen salan salalen and salalan ligands and their application towards enantioselective nitroaldol reaction The reaction is mild and afforded aryl heteroaryl naphthyl and alkyl nitroalcohols in high enantio