Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Opportunities (Nobel Lecture)

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 41; no. 12; pp. 2008 - 2022
• Main Author: Noyori, Ryoji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH 17.06.2002; WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH
• Subjects: asymmetric catalysis; asymmetric hydrogenation; Catalysis; Chemistry; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Ketones - chemistry; Molecular Structure; Nobel lecture; Nobel Prize; Organometallic Compounds - chemistry; phosphane ligands; ruthenium; Ruthenium - chemistry; Stereoisomerism

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...