Remarkable efficiency improvement in the preparation of insoluble polymer-bound (IPB) enantioselective catalytic systems by the use of silicone chemistry

The use of platinum-catalyzed hydrosilylation chemistry of silicones greatly simplifies the preparation of bis-oxazoline (box) ligands covalently bound to an insoluble polymeric support. The use of such immobilized chiral ligands in different copper-catalyzed asymmetric transformations (carbonyl-ene, Mukaiyama aldol and olefin cyclopropanation reactions) allows the attainment of high levels of enantioselectivity (91-99 % ee).