Catalytic Transfer of Chiral Information from an Organic Compound to a Coordination Complex
Résumé
Chirality bites: Use of a bidentate chiral sulfoxide auxiliary SO (see scheme) allows the first catalytic asymmetric synthesis of a chiral octahedral metal complex containing only achiral ligands, as shown from the conversion of the achiral complex trans-[Ru(bipyridine)2(CH3CN)2]2+ into Δ-[Ru(bipyridine)3]2+ in the presence of an excess of bipyridine.