Chiral Ferrocenes in Asymmetric Catalysis: Synthesis and Applications

The discovery of how an iron molecule is sandwiched between two rings caused much excitement in the world of chemistry and the new era of Organometallic chemistry began. Ferrocene is a surprisingly stable molecule with unique properties.
This book provides a good overview of the synthesis and characterization of different types of chiral ferrocene ligands, applications of these chiral ligands in various catalytic asymmetric reactions, and the versatile chiral materials and drug intermediates synthesized thereof. Synthesis and experimental procedures are included at the end of most chapters and a comprehensive appendix provides a show case of the most effective chiral ferrocene ligands in various catalytic reactions.
This book should act as a tool book guiding on the design of new ferrocene ligands and synthesis of chiral synthetic intermediates and will be useful for synthetic chemists, academic or non–academic of industrial research or process development.


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Nota biograficzna:
Li–Xin Dai is Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1947 and joined the SIOC in 1953. He is the Honorary President of Shanghai Society of Chemistry and Chemical Industry, and the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento–Organic Chemistry in Nankai University. His research interests include the design of chiral ligands and their applications in asymmetric catalysis. He was elected as the Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993. He has authored over 150 scientific publications and has received numerous scientific awards, including Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize and the National Natural Science Award of China.
Xue–Long Hou received his PhD in 1986 from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences under the mentorship of Prof essors Wei Yuan Huang of SIOC and Henry N.C. Wong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship and completed two years of postdoctoral research with Professor Emanuel Vogel at Cologne University, Germany. He is currently Professor at the SIOC and his research interests include OMCOS, the design of chiral ligands and their applications in asymmetric catalysis and the transformation of organic molecules under non–metal conditions.


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The discovery of how an iron molecule is sandwiched between two rings caused much excitement in the world of chemistry and the new era of Organometallic chemistry began. Ferrocene is a surprisingly stable molecule with unique properties.
This book provides a good overview of the synthesis and characterization of different types of chiral ferrocene ligands, applications of these chiral ligands in various catalytic asymmetric reactions, and the versatile chiral materials and drug intermediates synthesized thereof. Synthesis and experimental procedures are included at the end of most chapters and a comprehensive appendix provides a show case of the most effective chiral ferrocene ligands in various catalytic reactions.
This book should act as a tool book guiding on the design of new ferrocene ligands and synthesis of chiral synthetic intermediates and will be useful for synthetic chemists, academic or non–academic of industrial research or process development.