ChemInform Abstract: Asymmetric Reduction of Aliphatic Ketones and Acyl Silanes Using Chiral anti-Pentane-2,4-diol and a Catalytic Amount of 2,4-Dinitrobenzenesulfonic Acid.

✍ Scribed by Jun-ichi Matsuo; Yu Hattori; Mio Hashizume; Hiroyuki Ishibashi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 37 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201101172

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A wide range of linear and cyclic ketones is reduced to the corresponding alcohols with moderate yields and good to excellent enantioselectivities.