Amino acid hydroxy-amide ligand

Aryl alkyl ketones are reduced in up to 97% ee by transfer hydrogenation in ethanol (which is also the hydrogen donor), using an amino acid hydroxy amide ligand com-plexed to ruthenium(II)." ... 

A ruthenium complex (268), formed in situ by [Ru(p-cymene)Cl2] and the amino acid hydroxy-amide ligand (269), catalysed the asymmetric reduction of aryl alkyl ketones to secondary alcohols in moderate to good yields and with up to 97% ee... 

Pinacolone, o-(diphenylphosphino)benzoyl-coordination chemistry, 401 Piperidine, IV-hydroxy-metal complexes, 797 pA a values azole ligands, 77 Plant roots amino acids, 962 carboxylic acids, 962 Plastocyanin copper binding site, 557 copper(II) complexes, 772 copper(II) site in, 770 Platinum, dichlorobis(benzonitrile)-IR spectrum, 264 Platinum, cis-dichlorodianunine-antitumor activity, 34, 979 Platinum, ethylenebis(triphenylphosphine)-reactions with 5,6-dimethyl-2,l,3-benzothiadiazole, 194 Platinum blue formation, 265 Platinum complexes acetylacetone reactions, 380 amides, 491 amidines... 

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