Pincer-type Ligands for Enantioselective Catalysis

Significance

In transition-metal catalysis, iron-containing complexes still remain a largely undeveloped field of chemistry. The authors demonstrate a simple, highly modular pincer-derived ligand which showed moderate to high enantio­selectivity for iron-catalyzed hydrosilation and cobalt-catalyzed cyclopropanation. The synthesis of the ligand is rather straightforward and this system may have further application in the future.