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Highly Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Unsymmetrical Benzophenones via Iridium–f-phamidol Catalysis

Fanping Huang, Qiwei Lang, Gen‐Qiang Chen, Xumu Zhang

Organic Letters, 2024

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Abstract

-phamidol-based tetradentate phosphine ligands have been developed and successfully used in iridium-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of benzophenones to deliver chiral benzhydrols in almost quantitative yields and with excellent enantioselectivities (up to >99% yield and up to >99% ee). Moreover, the catalytic system shows a broad substrate scope and functional group tolerance. The synthetic utilities of this methodology have been showcased by gram-scale experiments and the formal synthesis of levocetirizine.

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