UREAphos: supramolecular bidentate ligands for asymmetric hydrogenation

AJ Sandee, AM van der Burg, JNH Reek

Index: Sandee, Albertus J.; Van Der Burg, Alida M.; Reek, Joost N. H. Chemical Communications, 2007 , # 8 p. 864 - 866

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Abstract

Chiral bidentate ligands 1 have dominated the field of asymmetric transition metal catalysis for more than 30 years. However, since the recent breakthrough by Feringa and de Vries, 2 Reetz 3 and Pringle, 4 showing that metal complexes based on monodentate ligands can provide highly enantioselective catalysts, many examples using monodentate ligands have appeared in the literature. 5 The main reason for the preference for monodentate over bidentate ligands is ...