High throughput screening and evolution of a library of ligands in asymmetric H-transfer reduction of acetophenone

Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 393-413

  Abdallah, Radwan ^a   Grenouillet, Pierre ^a   Vriamont, Nicolas ^b   Riant, Olivier ^b   De Bellefon, Claude ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asymmetric hydrogenation; Combinatorial catalysis; High throughput screening; Homogeneous catalysis; Ligand library

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE; IRIDIUM; LIGAND; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CHIRAL CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; EVOLUTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; VALIDITY;

ACETOPHENONES; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HYDROGEN; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77955737274     PISSN: 13862073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138620710791292985     Document Type: Article

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