title: Enantioselective iridium-catalyzed hydrogenation of β,β-disubstituted nitroalkenes.
abstract: An iridium complex with a newly prepared chiral spiro amino-phosphine ligand efficiently catalyzed the hydrogenation of both β-aryl-β-methyl-nitroalkenes and β-alkyl-β-methyl-nitroalkenes to the corresponding saturated nitroalkanes, which represents the first report of a chiral catalyst that exhibits high enantioselectivity for the challenging hydrogenation of β,β-dialkyl-nitroalkenes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
authors.forename: Yan-Bo
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Yi-Pan
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Shou-Fei
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Qi-Lin
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Zhou