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Synfacts 2008(11): 1230-1230
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1083402
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1083402
Polymer-Supported Synthesis
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Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones Using MSN-Supported Ruthenium Catalysts
D. J. Mihalcik, W. Lin*
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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Publication History
Publication Date:
23 October 2008 (online)

Significance
Mesoporous silica nanosphere (MSN) supported Ru complexes were developed and found to be effective catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones. Thus, the reaction of chiral diphosphines 1a-c with [{RuCl2(p-cymene)}2] followed by treatment with chiral 1,2-cyclohexanediamine having propyltriethoxysilane gave chiral Ru complexes 3a-c, which were grafted onto MSN-48 by refluxing in toluene to afford MSN-48-immobilized Ru complexes 4a-c. Asymmetric hydrogenation of acetophenone was carried out under H2 in the presence of 1 mol% of Ru 4a and KOt-Bu to give 1-phenylethanol in 99% conversion yield with 61% ee.