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Organocatalytic Hydride Transfers: A New Concept in Asymmetric Hydrogenations
Author(s) -
Adolfsson Hans
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200500827
Subject(s) - transfer hydrogenation , hydride , enantioselective synthesis , reduction (mathematics) , amine gas treating , organocatalysis , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , catalysis , scheme (mathematics) , transfer (computing) , computer science , organic chemistry , metal , mathematics , parallel computing , ruthenium , mathematical analysis , geometry
Nature knows best : Recently developed enantioselective organocatalytic methods for the reduction of olefins under transfer‐hydrogenation conditions are discussed (see scheme). The metal‐free, amine‐catalyzed reductions described have been inspired by the way natural systems perform reduction reactions.