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Optically Active Organometallic Compounds of Transition Elements with Chiral Metal Atoms
1Institut für Anorganische Chemie der Universität, D-93040 Regensburg (Germany), Fax: (+49) 941-943-4439.
Abstract:
Chiral transition metal atoms are not only present in tris-chelate complexes [M(LL)3 ]n+ , which were already resolved into the enantiomers by Alfred Werner, but also in organometallic half-sandwich complexes such as 1 with three- or four-legged piano-stool structure. These complexes have been tools in the elucidation of the spatial course of reactions and in organic syntheses. Applications in enantioselective catalysis are beginning to show up.
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