Catalytic and asymmetric cyclopropanation of styrenes catalysed by ruthenium porphyrin and porphycene complexes

1 January 1997

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications

No. 13,p. 1205-1206
https://doi.org/10.1039/a608080d

Abstract

Ruthenium porphyrin and porphycene complexes catalyse stereospecific cyclopropanation of styrenes; high product turnovers with up to 90.8% ee were achieved with the [Ru(P*)(CO)(EtOH)] catalyst (H ₂ P* = chiral D ₄ porphyrin).

Keywords

ASYMMETRIC
CYCLOPROPANATION
CATALYSED
STYRENES
CHIRAL
STEREOSPECIFIC
TURNOVERS
ETOH

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