Abstract
AbstractIn the present work, we report on catalysis of the enantioselective hydrogenation of ketones with Ru(II) complexes composed of cheap achiral monodentate phosphine ligands in combination with an enantiopure 1,2‐diamine, affording a variety of optically active secondary alcohols with high efficiency and enantioselectivity. The steric impact of achiral monophosphine ligands in Ru complexes was found to be a critical factor for the high enantioselectivity of the reaction. This finding throws some light on a long‐standing challenge, the high cost of chiral bisphosphine ligands, associated with an industrial application of the asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones.
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