Patent number: 4343935
Abstract: Chiral Schiff bases, and transition metal complexes thereof, of formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be the same ordifferent, are hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, aryl, alkaryl, a substituent containing a hetero atom, or two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together with the pyridine ring from fused system, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 which may be the same or different, are hydrogen, lower alkyl, or, where n is 1, may with the pyridine ring to which CR.sup.4 R.sup.5 is attached form a fused system, R.sup.6 is hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, aryl or alkaryl, n is 0, 1 or 2 and J and K, which may be the same or different, are groups of the formulae: ##STR2## in which C* is an asymmetric carbon atom, and R.sup.7 and R.sup.8, which may be the same or different, are alkyl, aralkyl, aryl or alkaryl, or ##STR3## in which at least the ring carbon atom to which the iminyl nitrogen atom is attached is asymmetric, at least one of the carbon atoms adjacent the said ring carbon atom bears a hydroxyl group, R.sup.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 1980
Date of Patent:
August 10, 1982
Assignee:
Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
Inventors:
Dale A. Laidler, David J. Milner