Enantioselective reduction of prochiral ketones by chromium(II) complexes with amino acid ligands as the source of chirality

✍ Scribed by Tamás Patonay; Csongor Hajdu; József Jekő; Albert Lévai; Károly Micskei; Claudia Zucchi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(98)02611-2

✦ Synopsis

Prochiral ketches were reduced to enantiomerically enriched secondary alcohols by Cr(II)[L-amino acid] complexes in good yields and moderate enantioselectivity.