Iridium Catalysts with f-Amphox Ligands: Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Simple Ketones

Weilong Wu, Shaodong Liu, Meng Duan, Xuefeng Tan, Caiyou Chen, Yun Xie, Yu Lan*, Xiu-Qin Dong, Xumu Zhang

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Abstract

A series of modular and rich electronic tridentate ferrocene aminophosphoxazoline ligands (f-amphox) have been successfully developed and used in iridium-catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of simple ketones to afford corresponding enantiomerically enriched alcohols under mild conditions with superb activities and excellent enantioselectivities (up to 1"000"000 TON, almost all products up to >99% ee, full conversion). The resulting chiral alcohols and their derivatives are important intermediates in pharmaceuticals. © 2016 American Chemical Society.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2938-2941
JournalOrganic Letters
Volume18
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jun 2016
Externally publishedYes

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