Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Opportunities (Nobel Lecture 2001)

• Published in: Advanced synthesis & catalysis Vol. 345; no. 1-2; pp. 15 - 32
• Main Author: Noyori, Ryoji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 01.01.2003; WILEY‐VCH Verlag
• Subjects: asymmetric catalysis; asymmetric hydrogenation; BINAP; Nobel lecture; P ligands; ruthenium

Asymmetric catalysis, in its infancy in the 1960s, has dramatically changed the procedures of chemical synthesis, and resulted in an impressive progression to a level that technically approximates or sometimes even exceeds that of natural biological processes. The recent exceptional advances in this...