Wiley-VCH Verlag, ChemInform, 38(41), p. no-no, 2010
Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 17(46), p. 3001
DOI: 10.1039/b922534j
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Biscarbene ligands with two imidazolin-2-ylidene moieties at a chiral dioxolane backbone were used as ligands for gold, rhodium and palladium complexes. All new complexes showed varying degrees of enantioselectivity toward hydrogenation of prochiral alkenes with ees up to 95%.