- Review
Recent Developments in the Area of Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation
- Martin Wills,
- Matthew Palmer,
- Athene Smith,
- Jennifer Kenny and
- Tim Walsgrove
The use of an enantiomerically pure amino alcohol, coupled to a transfer hydrogenation process, in the asymmetric catalysis of the reduction of ketones to alcohols, is described. The process works well for unfunctionalised ketones, affording e.e.s of...

