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Novel simple and highly modular ligands for efficient asymmetric transfer-hydrogenation of ketones
Isidro M Pastor1, Patrik Västilä, Hans Adolfsson
1Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
Novel simple and highly modular dipeptide-analogue ligands combined with [RuCl2(p-cymene)]2 were demonstrated to efficiently catalyze the reduction of ketones under hydrogen transfer conditions with enantioselectivities up to 96%.