ChemInform Abstract: Ligand-Controlled Highly Regioselective and Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Quinoxalines Catalyzed by Ruthenium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes.

✍ Scribed by Slawomir Urban; Nuria Ortega; Frank Glorius

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201134165

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The first homogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation of bicyclic heteroaromatic compounds leading to the selective hydrogenation of the carbocyclic ring is presented using a chiral N‐heterocyclic carbene complex.