configuration of the stereogenic plane. Presumably, the second lithium atom attached at the ortho-position of the phenyl ring is responsible for this difference through the intramolecular multicenter arrangement involving both lithium atoms and their adjacent carbon atoms, the iron atom of the ferrocenyl moiety, and the nitrogen atom of the amino group. This hypothesis has been supported also by quantum chemical
Ferrocenyl Ligands with Two Phosphanyl Substituents in theα,ɛ positions for the Transition Metal Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Functionalized Double Bonds
The spatial arrangement of groups within a chiral ligand is essential for its catalytic performance. This work describes convenient synthesis of (R,Sp)-1-(2-(diphenylphosphano)ferrocenyl)-1-(2-diphenylphosphanophenyl)-N,N-dimethylmethanamine, a diastereomer of the well known (R,Rp)-Taniaphos ligand. The compound was prepared from the same homochiral amine as Taniaphos by sequential twofold lithiation