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Biomimetic asymmetric catalysis
Enzymes are the core for biological transformations in nature. Their structures and functions have drawn enormous attention from biologists as well as chemists since last century. The large demand of bioactive...
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Homogeneous Reduction of Carbon Dioxide with Hydrogen
Carbon dioxide (CO2), a key greenhouse gas produced from both anthropogenic and natural sources, has been recently considered to be an important C1 building-block for the synthesis of many industrial fuels and ch...
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Homogeneous Reduction of Carbon Dioxide with Hydrogen
Carbon dioxide (CO2), a key greenhouse gas produced from both anthropogenic and natural sources, has been recently considered to be an important C1 building-block for the synthesis of many industrial fuels and ch...
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Synthesis of chiral 1,3-bis(1-(diarylphosphoryl)ethyl)-benzenes via Ir-catalyzed double asymmetric hydrogenation of bis(diarylvinylphosphine oxides)
A class of chiral 1,3-bis(diarylphosphinoethyl)benzenes, which are key intermediates for the synthesis of PCP-type chiral pincer ligands, were prepared in high diastereomeric ratios and excellent ee values via...
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Enantioselective Catalysis with Structurally Tunable Immobilized Catalysts
Immobilization of a chiral homogeneous catalyst can in principle facilitate its separation and recycling, and therefore is of considerable interest to both academia and industry. A number of methods have been...
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Synthesis of novel chiral bisoxazoline ligands with a spiro[4,4]-1,6-nonadiene skeleton
A new type of chiral bisoxazoline ligands 1 based on spiro[4,4]-1,6-nonadiene backbone was easily prepared in six steps from racemic spiro[4,4]-nonane-1,6-dione, with the Pd-catalyzed coupling of the enol triflat...
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Synthesis of NOBIN Derivatives for Asymmetric Catalysis
This account highlighted the recent advances of our research on the synthesis of enantiopure 2-amino-2′-hydroxy-1,1′-binaphthyl (NOBIN) and its derivatives as well as their applications in asymmetric catalysis...
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Recent advances in catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation: Renaissance of the monodentate phosphorus ligands
The history for the development of chiral phosphorus ligands in catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation is briefly highlighted. This review focuses on the recent advances in the synthesis of the monodentate phospho...
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Molecular assembly in an inclusion crystal of tris(2-benzimidazylmethyl)amine with 4-nitrobenzoic acid
A 1:2 inclusion compound of tris(2-benzimidazylmethyl)amine with 4-nitrobenzoic acid [(C24H21N7) · (C7H5NO2)2] has been prepared and the molecular assembly in solid state has been determined by X-ray crystal stru...