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Synfacts 2011(10): 1103-1103  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1261129
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of α,α-Disubstituted Ketones

Contributor(s): Mark Lautens, Patrick T. Franke
R. Soni, J.-M. Collinson, G. C. Clarkson, M. Wills*
The University of Warwick, UK
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20. September 2011 (online)

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Significance

The authors report on a ruthenium-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of α,α-disubstituted ketones containing an aromatic ring or alkene. The reactions were generally run on a 0.3 mmol scale and the alcohols are obtained in high enantiomeric excess.