Highly enantioselective synthesis of chiral cyclic amino alcohols and conhydrine by ruthenium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 4994-4997

  Liu, Sheng ^a   Xie, Jian Hua ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Kong, Wei Ling ^a   Wang, Li Xin ^a   Zhou, Qi Lin ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ALPHA-CONHYDRINE; AMINOALCOHOL; CONHYDRINE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONIUM; HYDROGENATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALKALOIDS; AMINO ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; HEMLOCK; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PIPERIDINES; RUTHENIUM; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 70350635784     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol901605a     Document Type: Article

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