Both enantiomers of 2-aminotetralines and 3-aminochromanes are easily accessible via asymmetric hy
drogenation by simply switching from Rh to Ir. The chiral information is provided by a phosphite-thioether ligand, with a simple architecture, derived from
d-mannitol. This picture illustrates how the chiral pool can be used to synthesize these phosphite-thioether ligands that in combination with either Rh- or Ir-catalyst precursors allow the efficient enantioswitchable hy
drogenation of cyclic β-enamides. More information can be found in the Full Paper by O. Pàmies and M. Di&
eacute;guez et al. on
page 813 ff.