Experimental and theoretical studies on chiral heterogeneous catalysts for hydrogenation reactions

MÓNICA L. CASELLA; JOSÉ F. RUGGERA; ANDREA B. MERLO; VIRGINIA VETERE

Porto, Portugal

Congreso; XXI Encontro Nacional SPQ; 2008

Sociedad Portuguesa de Química

The preparation of pure chemical compounds has been one of the most rapid growing areas in chemistry over the last decades with heterogeneous catalysis being recognised as providing new possibilities. In this contribution, two different strategies are studied to obtain enantioselectivity through heterogeneous catalysis: the use of a chiral species to modify a solid surface and the grafting of a chiral organotin compound on a metallic catalyst (via Surface Organometallic Chemistry on Metals techniques, SOMC/M). Both types of systems are applied to enantioselective hydrogenation reactions.