Method for asymmetric synthesis

US7696349B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Christoph Jäkel · Schifferstadt, DE
• Martin Volland · Heidelberg, DE
• Thomas Mackewitz · Mannheim, DE
• Rocco Paciello · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Bernhard Breit · Gundelfingen, DE
• Wolfgang Seiche · Heidelberg, DE
• Martine Weis · Glückstadt, DE
• Christoph Waloch · Langenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 2008
• Grant date: Apr 13, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 24, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2531/847
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a process for asymmetric synthesis in the presence of a chiral catalyst comprising at least one complex of a metal of transition group VIII with ligands capable of dimerization via noncovalent bonds, such catalysts and their use.