A powerful Brønsted acid catalyst for the organocatalytic asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of imines

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 45, 2005, Pages 7424-7427

  Hoffmann, Sebastian ^a   Seayad, Abdul Majeed ^a   List, Benjamin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Chiral amines; Hydrogenation; Imines; Rhomogeneous catalysis

Indexed keywords

AMINES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; HYDROGENATION; PHOSPHORIC ACID;

ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CHIRAL AMINES; IMINES; RHOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 28044438742     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200503062     Document Type: Article

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