Synfacts 2011(5): 0531-0531  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259863
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

New Insights in Heterogeneous Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation

Contributor(s): Hisashi Yamamoto, Patrick Brady
K. Balázsik, K. Szőri, G. Szőllősi*, M. Bartók*
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged and University of Szeged, Hungary
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Publication Date:
15 April 2011 (online)

Significance

This report describes a series of ­kinetic and competition experiments that shed light on the mechanism of this hydrogenation. These insights should prove to be helpful in ­designing more efficient and selective hetero­geneous asymmetric reactions.