A novel ruthenium catalysed deracemisation of alcohols
- 13 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 37 (44) , 5578-5579
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b511492f
Abstract
The deracemisation of alcohols has been achieved with 65–75% ee using a non-selective ruthenium catalysed oxidation to give an intermediate ketone followed by an enantioselective hydrogenation.Keywords
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