Bifunctional catalysis: Direct reductive amination of aliphatic ketones with an iridium-phosphate catalyst

Molecules

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2453-2472

  Villa Marcos, Barbara ^a   Li, Chaoqun ^a   Mulholland, Keith R ^b   Hogan, Philip J ^b   Xiao, Jianliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aliphatic ketones; Asymmetric hydrogenation; Bifunctional catalyst; Chiral amines; Reductive amination

Indexed keywords

AMINE; IRIDIUM; KETONE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGENATION;

AMINES; CATALYSIS; HYDROGENATION; IRIDIUM; KETONES; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 77951870308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules15042453     Document Type: Article

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