Zirconium catalysed enantioselective hydroamination/cyclisationElectronic Supplementary Information (ESI) available: experimental details and characterising data for complexes and substrates, catalytic protocol, determination of ee, crystal data for [ZrL2Cl2]. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b4/b401493f/
ZrIV and HfIV benzyl (neutral or cationic) and amido catalysts stabilized by pyridylamido ligands are found to be good candidates for the intramolecular hydroamination/cyclization of primary and secondary aminoalkenes. In particular, cationic monobenzyl derivatives have shown remarkable catalytic activity for the production of five and six‐membered N‐containing heterocycles from secondary amino alkenes