Immobilization of Transition Metal Complexes and Their Application to Enantioselective Catalysis

Immobilization of Transition Metal Complexes and Their Application to Enantioselective Catalysis 

Adrian Crosman, Carmen Schuster, Hans-Hermann Wagner, Melinda Batorfi, Jairo Cubillos, and Wolfgang HQlderich 

Another common and simple immobilization technique for catalytically active metal complexes is via ionic bonding, which is particularly useful for cationic 

When entrapment methods are being used for heterogenization, the size of the metal complex is more important than the specific adsorptive interaction. There are two different preparation strategies. The first is based on building up catalysts in well-defined cages of porous supports. This approach is also called the ship in a bottle method [29]. The other approach is to build up a polymer network around a preformed catalyst. 

Some examples for the application of such immobilization strategies and the application of the immobilized complexes to asymmetric hydrogenation and epoxidation as well as to ring-opening reactions of epoxides will be presented in this chapter. 

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