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Inside Cover: Enantioselective Synthesis of Amines: General, Efficient Iron-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44/2010)
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Although iron is one of the most abundant metals, its application to catalysis is still in its infancy. In their Communication on page 8121 ff., M. Beller and co-workers present the first iron-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of imines. Iron carbonyl complexes in the presence of a tetradentate P2N2 ligand catalyze the reduction of N-diphenylphosphinylimines with high enantioselectivity (99 %) and good yields (98 %).
