An Unsymmetrical Iron Catalyst for the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

作者：Smith Samantha A M; Morris Robert H^*

来源：Synthesis (Germany), 2015, 47(12): 1775-1779.

DOI：10.1055/s-0034-1380147

• hydrogenation
• iron catalysis
• chirality
• ketones
• alcohols

A new iron(II)(Ph2P-NH-N-PCy2) complex with a dicyclohexylphosphino group trans to the NH group was found to catalyze the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of a variety of ketones with high enantioselectivity.

• 出版日期2015-6