Highly enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed hydrogenation of 2-(2-methoxy-2-oxoethyl)acrylic acid - A convenient access of enantiomerically pure isoprenoid building blocks

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3453-3459

  Ostermeier, Markus ^a   Brunner, Bernhard ^a   Korff, Christian ^a   Helmchen, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Enzyme catalysis; Homogeneous catalysis; Hydrogenation; P ligands; Rhodium

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; 2 (2 METHOXY 2 OXOETHYL)ACRYLIC ACID; 4 METHOXY 2 METHYL 4 OXOBUTANOIC ACID; ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIMETHYL 2 METHYLSUCCINATE; ISOPRENOID; NATURAL PRODUCT; PHOSPHITE; RHODIUM; SUCCINIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; HYDROGENATION; SAPONIFICATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0042284831     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200300222     Document Type: Article

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