Facile assembly of bifunctional, magnetically retrievable mesoporous silica for enantioselective cascade reactions

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Nov 7;55(90):13578-13581. doi: 10.1039/c9cc07123g.

Abstract

An integrated immobilization to encapsulate the Pd/C-coated magnetic nanoparticles within the chiral Ru/diamine-functionalized silica shell for the construction of a bifunctional magnetic catalyst is developed. This catalyst realizes a synergistic Suzuki cross-coupling/asymmetric transfer hydrogenation and a successive reduction/asymmetric transfer hydrogenation for the preparation of chiral aromatic alcohols.