Journal of the American Chemical Society

C2-symmetric bis (phospholanes) and their use in highly enantioselective hydrogenation reactions

MJ Burk

Index: Burk, Mark J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 22 p. 8518 - 8519

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Abstract

Asymmetric catalysis is one of the most powerful, economically feasible methods for the generation of enantiomerically enriched compounds. C2-Symmetric chiral diphosphines have emerged as a valuable class of ligands in transition-metal-based asymmetric catalysis, and in certain cases, spectacular enantioselectivity has been observed.'We recently reported the preparation and use of a variety of new electron-rich chiral phospholane ...