Enantiomerically pure bicyclo[3.3.1]nona-2,6-diene as the sole source of enantioselectivity in BIPHEP-Rh asymmetric hydrogenation

Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy, Monika Mayr, Alexander S. Dorofeev, Carole J. R. Bataille, S. Gosiewska, Bao N. Nguyen, A.R. Cowley, John M. Brown

Chemical Communications · 2008 · 47 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

In situ resolution of the rapidly racemising diphosphine BIPHEP and its relatives with the cationic Rh complex of (S,S)-bicyclonona-2,6-diene permits the asymmetric hydrogenation of dehydroamino esters.

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