Design, Performance, Manufacture and Industrial Use of Chiral Ligands
Dr Marc Thommen of Solvias described the synthesis of a number of chiral ligands (such as josiphos, walphos taniaphos, mandiphane, butiphane, rophos and a new ligand – Solvias binap) and their use as hydrogenation catalysts and some new research using these ligands in cross-coupling reactions, asymmetric conjugate acyclic enones, and enantioselective ring opening of heterobicyclic alkenes.
