An additional coordination group leads to extremely efficient chiral iridium catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 7329-7332

  Xie, Jian Hua ^a   Liu, Xiao Yan ^a   Xie, Jian Bo ^a   Wang, Li Xin ^a   Zhou, Qi Lin ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

asymmetric catalysis; chiral alcohols; hydrogenation; iridium; ketones

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHOSPHINE LIGANDS; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION; CHIRAL ALCOHOLS; IRIDIUM CATALYST; TURNOVER NUMBER;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; IRIDIUM; KETONES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

HYDROGENATION;

IRIDIUM; KETONE; PHOSPHINE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE; SPIRO COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HYDROGENATION; STEREOISOMERISM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGENATION; IRIDIUM; KETONES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOSPHINES; SPIRO COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 79960910856     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201102710     Document Type: Article

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