Homogeneous Pd-catalyzed asymmetrichydrogenation of 3-phthalimido substituted quinolines was successfully developed, providing facile access to chiral substituted tetrahydroquinolines bearing two contiguous stereogenic centers with up to 90% ee.
A chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromaticamines, quinolin-3-amines, was successfully developed with up to 99% ee. To supplement our previous work on the Ir-catalyzed asymmetrichydrogenation of 2-alkyl substituted quinolin-3-amines, a number of 2-aryl substituted substrates were reduced to provide a series of valuable chiralexocyclicamines with high diastereo-