Chiral-at-metal organolanthanides: enantioselective aminoalkene hydroamination/cyclisation with non-cyclopentadienylsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: complete experimental procedures and characterising data for all ligands and complexes, crystal data for [YL2{N(SiMe2H)2}(THF)] and [SmL4{N(SiMe2H)}]. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b3/b305105f/

Abstract
Chiral non-racemic complexes [ML{N(SiMe2H)2}(thf)] (M = Y, La, H2L = salicylaldimine ligands derived from 2,2′-diamino-6,6′-dimethylbiphenyl) are found not to be effective catalysts for the intramolecular hydroamination of aminoalkenes, but new amino/phenoxide ligand designs without reducible functional groups led to long-lived and enantioselective catalysts.

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