Air-stable and phosphine-free iridium catalysts for highly enantioselective hydrogenation of quinoline derivatives

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5265-5268

  Li, Zhi Wei ^a   Wang, Tian Li ^a   He, Yan Mei ^a   Wang, Zhi Jian ^a   Fan, Qing Hua ^a   Pan, Jie ^a   Xu, Li Jin ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; PHOSPHINE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE;

AIR; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROGENATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

AIR; CATALYSIS; HYDROGENATION; IRIDIUM; PHOSPHINES; QUINOLINES; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149202442     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol802016w     Document Type: Article

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