A screening method for asymmetric catalysts is reported in which a metal-containing optically-active product of an asymmetric reaction is employed as a chiral catalyst in another asymmetric reaction; the rapid preparation and instant testing system of catalysts resulted in a considerable reduction in the time required for the screening process.
Optically active dinuclear palladium complexes containing a Pd−Pd bond were prepared by using (R,R)-bis(tert-butylmethylphosphino)methane ((R,R)-t-Bu-MiniPHOS). The dinuclear palladium complexes coupled with silver triflate exhibited good to excellent enantioselectivities up to 99% in palladium-catalyzed alkylative ring-openingreactions of azabenzonorbornadienes.