New phosphorus ligand for highly enantioselective hydroformylations

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Yongjun Yan, yzy104@psu.edu and Xumu Zhang, xumu@chem.psu.edu. Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Chemistry Building, # 284, University Park, PA 16802
A new phosphorus ligand has been developed which shown unprecedented high enantioselectivity in Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydroformylations of styrene derivatives.