Chiral rhodium complexes covalently anchored on carbon nanotubes for enantioselective hydrogenation

CC Gheorghiu, BF Machado, CSM de Lecea…

Index: Gheorghiu; Machado; Salinas-Martinez De Lecea; Gouygou; Roman-Martinez; Serp Dalton Transactions, 2014 , vol. 43, # 20 p. 7455 - 7463

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Abstract

Chiral rhodium hybrid nanocatalysts have been prepared by covalent anchorage of pyrrolidine-based diphosphine ligands onto functionalized CNTs. This work constitutes the first attempt at covalent anchoring of homogeneous chiral catalysts on CNTs. The catalysts, prepared with two different chiral phosphines, were characterized by ICP, XPS, N2 adsorption and TEM, and have been tested in the asymmetric hydrogenation of two ...