The role of the aromatic ligand in the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of the CN bond on Noyori’s chiral Ru catalysts
作者:Petr Šot、Beáta Vilhanová、Jan Pecháček、Jiří Václavík、Jakub Zápal、Marek Kuzma、Petr Kačer
DOI:10.1016/j.tetasy.2014.08.011
日期:2014.10
Only four types of dimeric precursors [RuCl2(eta(6)-arene)](2) for the synthesis of Noyori's half sandwich diamine catalysts [RuCl(TsDPEN)(eta(6)-arene)] are commercially available, yet so far no study has tried to systematically evaluate how these systems perform during the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of various 3,4-dihydroisoquinolines (i.e., the typical substrates for Noyori asymmetric transfer hydrogenation benchmarking). Experiments combined with molecular modeling allowed us to assess their properties and formulate a hypothesis clarifying the difference in enantioselectivity of these systems. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.