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SUBMITTER: Yang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5384563 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical science 20161115 3
We developed neutral iridium catalysts with chiral spiro phosphine-carboxy ligands (SpiroCAP) for asymmetric hydrogenation of unsaturated carboxylic acids. Different from the cationic Crabtree-type catalysts, the iridium catalysts with chiral spiro phosphine-carboxy ligands are neutral and do not require the use of a tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate (BAr<sub>F</sub><sup>-</sup>) counterion, which is necessary for stabilizing cationic Crabtree-type catalysts. Another advantage of th ...[more]