NEUE METHODEN ZUR KATALYTISCHEN REDUKTION ORGANISCHER SUBSTRATE

摘要

A process is provided whereby organic carbonyl substrates, including esters, ketones and amides, are reduced in a reaction with a silane reducing reagent and a catalyst. According to the invention esters and ketones can be reduced to alcohols while amides can be reduced to amines, enamines or a mixture thereof. Methods are also provided for catalytically reducing imines to yield amines. Moreover, there is provided a process for the catalytic asymmetric reduction of imines, oximes, hydrazones, and the like, using enantiomerically enriched catalysts, or catalysts in the presence of enantiomerically enriched additives, to provide chiral amine reaction products which are enriched in one enantiomer. Furthermore, there is provided a process for the catalytic asymmetric reduction of ketones, using catalysts in the presence of enantiomerically enriched additives to provide chiral alcohol reaction products which are enriched in one enantiomer.