A new asymmetric method for preparing chiral allylic esters from various unactivated alkanes through simultaneous dehydrogenation and enantioselective allylic oxidation in the presence of chiral heterogeneous oxazoline-based ligands is reported for the first time. For this purpose, chiral amino oxazoline ligands, synthesized from chiral amino alcohols and cyanogen bromide, were immobilized on modified MCM-41 mesoporous silica. These chiral heterogeneous ligands were then characterized using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller and Barrett-Joyner-Halenda techniques. Finally, copper-complexes of these ligands were employed in the synthesis of chiral allylic esters, achieving the best result with a %90 yield and %77 enantiomeric excess. Evaluation of the recyclability of the chiral heterogeneous catalysts revealed that they can be reused three times without a noticeable reduction in the results. In addition, the mechanism of formation of the chiral allylic esters was investigated using a density functional theory method.
