ChemInform Abstract: Highly Modular P—OP Ligands for Asymmetric Hydrogenation: Synthesis, Catalytic Activity, and Mechanism.

✍ Scribed by Hector Fernandez-Perez; Steven M. A. Donald; Ian J. Munslow; Jordi Benet-Buchholz; Feliu Maseras; Anton Vidal-Ferran

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201042035

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A new P—OP ligand, easily prepared in two synthetic steps from enantiopure epoxide, is used as a highly efficient ligand in the rhodium‐catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of functionalized alkenes.