Hisao Nishiyam, S. Yamaguchi, Soon-Bong Park
1993
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Tetrahedron-asymmetry
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Abstract A homochiral chiral 6,6′-bis(oxazolinyl)-2,2′-bipyridine ligand, bipymox ( 1 ), and its rhodium complex were synthesized to examine the enantioselectivity in the asymmetric hydrosilylation of ketones in comparison to other chiral oxazoline ligands such as bis-(oxazolinyl)pyridine, pybox ( 2 ), and mono(oxazolinyl)pyridine, pymox ( 3 ). The bipymox-rhodium catalyst gave the ( S )-absolute configuration of the product 1-phenylethanol (90 %ee) in the reduction of acetophenone with diphenylsilane the same as the pybox-rhodium system but opposite to the pymox-rhodium system. The reduction of 4-tert-butylcyclohexanone was also described.