Nakamura Shuichi, Fukuzumi Takeo, Toru Takeshi
Department of Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.
Chirality. 2004 Jan;16(1):10-2. doi: 10.1002/chir.10300.
New chiral ferrocenyl ligands having chiral sulfinyl and phosphinyl groups were prepared. The palladium-catalyzed allylic substitution reaction using these chiral ligands showed good enantioselectivity. The mechanism for the asymmetric reaction is proposed on the basis of the stereochemical outcome.