Technical Notes:
1. Ligand used in the ruthenium catalyzed, enantioselective hydrogenation of alkenes, carbonyls, and imines.
2.Ligand used in the rhodium-catalyzed cyclization of acetylenic aldehydes.
3.Ligand used in the iridium-catalyzed hydrogenative coupling of alkynes to aromatic and aliphatic N-arylsulfonyI aldimines.
4. Asymmetric Cu-catalyzed propargylic substitution with amines,«a and enamines.
5. Catalytic desymmetrizing intramolecular Heck reaction.
6.Assembly of 1 ,3- polyols .
7. Pd-catalyzed diastereo/enantioselective allylic alkylations of ketone enolates .
8. Enantioselective vinylogous Reformatsky-type addition.
9. Cu-catalyzed chemoselective preparation of 2-(pinacolato)boron- substituted allylcopper complexes
and their In situ site-, diastereo-, and enantioselective additions to ketones .
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