Asymmetric sulfoxidations with helical vanadium salen complexes

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Sanmitra Barman, sbarman@ksu.edu and Christopher J. Levy, clevy@ksu.edu. Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66502
Vanadium-salen complexes are known to have activity for the chiral sulfoxidation reaction. In this study, new monohelical vanadium(IV) salen complexes are examined as asymmetric sulfoxidation catalysts using a variety of oxidants and conditions.