Recent Developments in the Area of Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation
Open Access
- 20 January 2001
- Vol. 5 (1) , 4-18
- https://doi.org/10.3390/50100004
Abstract
The use of an enantiomerically pure amino alcohol, coupled to a transfer hydrogenation process, in the asymmetric catalysis of the reduction of ketones to alcohols, is described. The process works well for unfunctionalised ketones, affording e.e.s of up to 98%, and excellent conversions. We have recently extended, for the first time in this application, the scope of the methodology to the reductions of a-heteroatom substituted substrates, through the use of the appropriate protecting groups on each atom.Keywords
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