RESOLUTIONS OF TERTIARY PHOSPHINES AND ARSINES WITH ORTHOMETALLATED PALLADIUM(II)-AMINE COMPLEXES

The use of the homochiral forms of chloro-bridged palladium(II) comple xes containing orthometallated N,N-dimethyl(alpha-methylbenzyl)amines and related naphthylamines for the resolution of trivalent phosphines and arsines chiral at phosphorus and arsenic is reviewed. Work with a wide variety of ligands is discussed and references to applications of the ligands as probes of inorganic stereochemistry and as auxiliaries for asymmetric synthesis are given. Most examples have been taken fro m work carried out in the author's laboratories. (C) 1997 Elsevier Sci ence S.A.