The present invention relates to a use of a cyclic imidate as a ligand for catalysis in which the ligand contains sub-structure (Y) as a minimal structural motive, wherein the carbon atoms and the nitrogen atom can be optionally substituted by a chemical substituent.
that N-(tert-butyl)-N-methylanilines 1 have C(aryl)–N(amine) bond axial chirality and succeeded the optical resolution of C–N bond atropisomers of amines 1 by a chiral palladium resolving agent and/or a chiral HPLC method. Finally, we demonstrated the ability of chiral amines 1 as a ligand in palladium-catalyzedasymmetricallylicalkylation of allylic esters with malonates (up to 95% ee).