title: Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of 3-phthalimido substituted quinolines.
abstract: Homogeneous Pd-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of 3-phthalimido substituted quinolines was successfully developed, providing facile access to chiral substituted tetrahydroquinolines bearing two contiguous stereogenic centers with up to 90% ee.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. ygzhou@dicp.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Xian-Feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Wen-Xue
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Zhang-Pei
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yong-Gui
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Zhou