A. Harthun et al., THE USE OF IN-SITU NMR-SPECTROSCOPY AND PARAHYDROGEN AS TOOLS FOR CHIRAL SYNTHESIS, Tetrahedron letters, 36(41), 1995, pp. 7423-7426
1. In situ H-1 NMR spectroscopy and using parahydrogen (p-H-2) allows
to characterize the stereochemistry of suitable hydrogenation reaction
s instantaneously. 2. The rhodium(I)-catalyzed homogeneous hydrogenati
on of the unsaturated racemic alcohols (R,S)-2-(1-hydroxy-ethyl)-acryl
ic acid methyl ester (I) and (R,S)-2-methoxy-1-phenyl-buta-2,3-dien-1-
ol (II) leads to the formation of different diastereomeric products wh
ich can be distinguished unambiguously due to their characteristic pol
arization multiplets.