General synthesis of chiral β-hydroxy sulfones via enantioselective ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogenation

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3175-3178

  Bertus, P ^a   Phansavath, P ^a   Ratovelomanana Vidal, V ^a   Genet J P ^a   Touati, A R ^b   Homri, T ^b   Hassine, B Ben ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA HYDROXYSULFONE; RUTHENIUM; SULFONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; HYDROGENATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033574701     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(99)00453-0     Document Type: Article

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31. We are grateful to Dr. R. Schmid (Hoffmann La Roche) for samples of (R)-MeO-BIPHEP = (R)-(+)-6,6′-dimethoxy-2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-biphenyl and (S)-MeO-BIPHEP. (Equation presented)