PROCESS FOR THE ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION OF CARBONYL COMPOUNDS, AND THE COMPOUNDS OBTAINED THEREBY

摘要

PCT No. PCT/FR87/00238 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 1, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 1, 1988 PCT Filed Jun. 22, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO87/07889 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 1987.The asymmetric hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds is carried out in the presence of at least one transition metal complex MZq(M=metal of group VIII of the Periodic Classication; Z=ligand selected among the atoms and the molecules which may complex the metal M; and q=degree of corrdination of M) and of at least one chiral phosphorous-containing ligand having formula (I), wherein R is hydrocarbonated radical (alkyl, cycloalkyl and aryl); R1 is H, hydrocarbonated radical or PR2; R2 is H or hydrocarbonated radical R3,R4, necessarily different, are H and optionally functionalized hydrocarbonated radicals; R5 and R6 are H and optionally functionalized hydrocarbonated radicals; one of the radicals R3 and R4 possibly carrying a function - OPR2 or NPR2, R5 and R6 being in this case H when R1 is PR2; R2 and R3 and the atoms of N and C which cary them respectively forming a heterocycle; or R2 and R5, the atoms of N and C which carry them respectively and the intermediate C atom possibly forming a heterocycle. (I)