Highly Enantioselective Rh??Catalysed Hydrogenation of 1??Alkyl Vinyl Esters Using Phosphine–Phosphoramidite Ligands

…, P Schmitz, W Leitner, G Franciò

Index: Konrad, Tina Maria; Schmitz, Pascal; Leitner, Walter; Francio, Giancarlo Chemistry - A European Journal, 2013 , vol. 19, # 40 p. 13299 - 13303

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Abstract

Asymmetric hydrogenation is probably the most advanced and useful transition-metal- catalysed transformation for the synthesis of chiral building blocks both on laboratory and industrial scale.[1] Excellent levels of enantioselectivity have been achieved for a broad variety of substrates and functionalities at often high productivities. However, no effective transition-metal catalyst for the asymmetric hydrogenation of aliphatic ketones is known so ...