Open AccessCatalysis with Complexes Containing Stereogenic Metal Centers
Author(s) -
E. Peter Kündig
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2014.312
Subject(s) - stereocenter , ethylenediamine , catalysis , metal , enantiomer , chemistry , stereochemistry , center (category theory) , enantioselective synthesis , organic chemistry , crystallography
Alfred Werner, one of the founders of the Swiss Chemical Society and its first president and the first Nobel Prizewinner for Chemistry in Switzerland, established the stereochemistry of coordination complexes. As an important element in the verification of his hypothesis he demonstrated the existence of two enantiomeric forms of [Co(ethylenediamine)3][Cl3]. The present article briefly examines the question of the use in asymmetric catalysis of catalysts possessing a stereogenic metal center.