Rationally designed Fe-cyclopentadienone with unique orientations for efficient asymmetric hydrogenation of acylsilanes
Chaochao Xie, Bo-Xuan Yao, Kwok-Chung Law, Xumu Zhang, Shao-Fei Ni, Xuefeng Tan · 2025
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Description
Chaochao Xie and five co-authors designed an iron catalyst with a built chiral shape. Their paper, from twenty twenty-five, deals with iron cyclopentadienone complexes. These are wide used to add or strip hydrogen in reactions. But the chiral forms lag, since a good chiral home round the iron core is hard to build. Their complex bears bulky side arms that point down toward the ring plane.
Those arms carve a chiral pocket in front of the active iron. Used on acylsilanes, the catalyst adds hydrogen with high pace and fine left right choice. Readers in green chemistry get an earth rich metal doing a job oft left to rare metals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chaochao Xie, Bo-Xuan Yao, Kwok-Chung Law, Xumu Zhang, Shao-Fei Ni, Xuefeng Tan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |