(1) A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 28 ul. Vavilova, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract:
First representatives of chiral carborane-based phosphite ligands were synthesized. The enantiomeric excess in the Rh-catalyzed hydrogenation of dimethyl itaconate with the use of these ligands reaches 67% in CH2Cl2 and 62% in supercritical CO2, the ee and conversion being strongly dependent on the hydrogen pressure. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 337–340, February, 2008.