Diastereoselective hydrogenation of o-toluic acid derivatives over supported rhodium and ruthenium heterogeneous catalysts
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 14,p. 1431-1432
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a802822b
Abstract
Asymmetric hydrogenation of an o-toluic acid derivative to 2-methylcyclohexanoic acid with high optical selectivity (up to 95%) was performed by using (S)-pyroglutamic acid methyl ester as a chiral auxiliary and Rh–Al2O3 as the catalyst.Keywords
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