Asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones with H2 and ruthenium catalysts containing chiral tetradentate S2N2 ligands

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 52, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 10352-10355

  Patchett, Ruth ^a   Magpantay, Iris ^a   Saudan, Lionel ^a   Schotes, Christoph ^b   Mezzetti, Antonio ^b   Santoro, Francesco ^a  

^a Email:   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

alcohols; asymmetric hydrogenation; homogeneous catalysis; ruthenium; S ligands

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION; BASE-FREE; CHEMO-SELECTIVITY; HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS; RUTHENIUM CATALYSTS; S LIGANDS; SCALE-UP; TETRADENTATE;

ALCOHOLS; CATALYSTS; HYDROGENATION; KETONES; REACTION KINETICS; RUTHENIUM; SUBSTRATES;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84884897191     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201304844     Document Type: Article

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