Organic Letters 2010-11-05

Enantioselective Pd-catalyzed hydrogenation of fluorinated imines: facile access to chiral fluorinated amines.

Mu-Wang Chen, Ying Duan, Qing-An Chen, Duo-Sheng Wang, Chang-Bin Yu, Yong-Gui Zhou

Index: Org. Lett. 12 , 5075, (2010)

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Abstract

An enantioselective hydrogenation of simple fluorinated imines has been developed using Pd(OCOCF(3))(2)/(R)-Cl-MeO-BIPHEP as a catalyst, and up to 94% ee was achieved. This method provides an efficient route to enantioenriched fluorinated amines.