Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation. Design of New Ru Catalysts and Chiral Ligands: From Laboratory to Industrial Applications

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 908-918

  Genet, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTENONE; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; PHOSPHETANE DERIVATIVE; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHIRALITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ALKENES; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; DRUG DESIGN; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENATION; KETONES; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHINES; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0348147685     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar020152u     Document Type: Review

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