Ll. Troitskaya et al., SYNTHESIS OF DIASTEREOMERIC 1,2-DISUBSTITUTED FERROCENES OF HIGH OPTICAL PURITY FROM RACEMIC ALPHA-DIMETHYLAMINOALKYLFERROCENES, Russian chemical bulletin, 43(7), 1994, pp. 1253-1259
A novel approach to the synthesis of optically active 1,2-bifunctional
ferrocenes of high optical purity with any combination of absolute co
nfigurations of the chiral center and the chiral plane has been propos
ed. The method is based on asymmetric cyclopalladation of racemic alph
a-dimethylaminoethylferrocene under the conditions of its kinetic reso
lution.