A. N. Nesmeyanov-Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
A series of chiral phosphite-type ligands has been evaluated in the iridium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of acyclic arylimines in supercritical CO2. High reactivities (100% conversion in 50-120 min) and enantioselectivities (up to 95%) were obtained.