DAIPEN

Manufacture of ruthenium precatalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation. The technology in-licensed from the JST for the asymmetric reduction of ketones originally employed BINAP as the diphosphine and an expensive diamine, DAIPEN." Owing to the presence of several patents surrounding ruthenium complexes of BINAP and Xylyl-BINAP, [HexaPHEMP-RuCl2-diamine] and [PhanePHOS-RuCl2-diamine] were introduced as alternative catalyst systems in which a cheaper diamine is used. Compared to the BINAP-based systems both of these can offer superior performance in terms of activity and selectivity and have been used in commercial manufacture of chiral alcohols on multi-100 Kg scales. 

A chiral catalyst consisting of Irans-RuC]2(xy]binap)(daipen) and (CH3)3COK in 2-propanol effects asymmetric hydrogenation of a-, / -, and y-amino aromatic ketones [128]. Hydrogenation of 2-(dimethylamino)acetophenone catalyzed by the (R)-XylBINAP/(R)-DAIPEN-Ru complex [(R,R)-31D] gives the R amino alcohol in 93% ee (Fig. 32.36). The optical yield is increased up to 99.8%, when... 

Racemic 2-phenylpropiophenone, which has an enantiomerically labile a-stereogenic center under basic conditions, was hydrogenated with RuCl2[(S)-XylBINAP] [(S)-DAIPEN] and (CH3)3COK to afford predominantly the 1R,2R al-... 

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