Abstract: The invention relates to novel chiral ligands of formula (I), the production thereof and the use of the same in catalytic reactions.

Abstract: P-chiral bisphospholane ligands and methods for their preparation are described. Use of metal/P-chiral bisphospholane complexes to catalyze asymmetric transformation reactions to provide high enantiomeric excesses of formed compounds is also described.

Abstract: A non-symmetrical diphosphine of the formula

Abstract: Phosphine compounds represented by the following formula (1): 1

Abstract: A phosphine compound having excellent properties (chemical selectivity, enantioselectivity, catalytic activity) as a catalyst for asymmetric syntheses, especially asymmetric hydrogenations. A phosphine-phospholane compound represented by the following formula (1): a phosphine-primary phosphine intermediate; a transition metal complex including the phosphine-phospholane compound of formula (1) and a transition metal, and a catalyst including the transition metal complex.

Abstract: Chiral phospholanes having biaryl chirality for applications in asymmetric catalysis are provided. A series of new chiral mono- or bidentate phosphorus ligands were efficiently prepared through a key intermediate (S)-4-chloro-4,5-dihydro-3H-4-phospha-cyclohepta[2,1-a;3,4-a′]binaphthalene and its derivatives. These ligands were complexed with transition metals to prepare catalysts, which were used in asymmetric catalytic reactions, such as, asymmetric hydrogenation, hydride transfer, allylic alkylation, hydrosilylation, hydroboration, hydrovinylation, hydroformylation, olefin metathesis, hydrocarboxylation, isomerization, cyclopropanation, Diels-Alder reaction, Heck reaction, isomerization, Aldol reaction, Michael addition; epoxidation, kinetic resolution or [m+n] cycloaddition wherein m=3 to 6 and n=2.

Abstract: This invention relates to processes for making phosphorus compounds R2P—X—PR2, R2P-M, R2P-L and R3P, and the novel cation R2P+(L)-X—P+(L)R2, where R represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group, X represents a bridging group, L represents a leaving group and M represents an alkali metal atom. The invention relates further to a process for making a compound R2P-L from a compound R—H via a new process for making the compound R—Li followed by its reaction with a compound Hal2P-L. The compound R2P—X—PR2 is a ligand suitable for making catalysts for copolymerizing carbon monoxide and a olefinically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: A phosphine compound of formula (1) and a phosphine compound of formula (2) a transition metal complex having the phosphine compound as a ligand and a catalyst for asymmetric hydrogenation including the transition metal complex.

Abstract: A non-symmetrical diphosphine of the formula R1R2P—(Z)—PR3R4 wherein Z represents a chain of 2 to 4 carbon atoms which may be substituted, which chain may be saturated or unsaturated, and R1, R2, R3 and R4, which may be the same or differ, are aliphatic, aromatic or heteroaromatic groups attached to the phosphorus by carbon, nitrogen, oxygen or sulphur such that each phosphorus atom and its substituents independently form a single enantiomer.

Abstract: 3,3′-Substituted chiral biaryl phosphine and phosphinite ligands and metal complexes based on such chiral ligands useful in asymmetric catalysis are disclosed. The metal complexes are useful as catalysts in asymmetric reactions, such as, hydrogenation, hydride transfer, allylic alkylation, hydrosilylation, hydroboration, hydrovinylation, hydroformylation, olefin metathesis, hydrocarboxylation, isomerization, cyclopropanation, Diels-Alder reaction, Heck reaction, isomerization, Aldol reaction, Michael addition, epoxidation, kinetic resolution and [m+n] cycloaddition. The metal complexes are particularly effective in Ru-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of beta-ketoesters to beta-hydroxyesters and Ru-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of enamides to beta amino acids.

Abstract: Bidentate ligand of formula II, R1R2M1—R—M2R3R4  (II) wherein M1 and M2 are independently P, As or Sb; R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently represent tertiary alkyl groups, or R1 and R2 together and/or R3 and R4 together represent an optionally substituted bivalent cycloaliphatic group whereby the two free valencies are linked to M1 or M2, and R represents a bivalent aliphatic bridging group containing from 2 to 6 atoms in the bridge, which is substituted with two or more substituents. A catalyst system comprising: a) a source of group VIII metal cations; b) a source of such a bidentate ligand; and c) a source of anions, and use of such a catalyst system in a process for the carbonylation of optionally substituted ethylenically or acetylenically unsaturated compounds by reaction with carbon monoxide and a coreactant is provided.

Abstract: A process for separating the (d/l) and (meso) diastereoisomers of bis-[1-phospha-2,3-diphenyl-4,5-dimethylnorbornadiene] comprising converting the mixture of diastereoisomers of bis-[1-phospha-2,3-diphenyl-4,5-dimethylnorbornadiene] to a mixture of the corresponding diastereoisomers of diphosphine disulphide or dioxide, then in separating the two diastereoisomers in dioxide or disulphide form.

Abstract: Phospolanes and diphospholanes of the general formula I where: is H, C1-C6-aryl, alkylaryl, SiR32, R2 is alkyl or aryl, A is H, C1-C6-alkyl, aryl, Cl or B is a linker with 1-5 C atoms between the two P atoms, and their use as catalyst in asymmetric synthesis.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing &bgr;-phosphorous nitroxide radicals which comprises preparing in a first step an aminophosphonate by reacting a carbonyl compound, a primary amine and a phosphorous compound, then in a second step in oxidizing said aminophosphonate using on-halogenated organic peracids in a two-phase organic water/solvent medium with a buffered aqueous phase with a pH ranging between 5 and 12.

Abstract: A novel phosphine compound having excellent properties (chemical selectivity, enantioselectivity, catalytic activity) as a catalyst for asymmetric syntheses, especially asymmetric hydrogenation. A phosphine-phosphorane compound represented by the following general formula: (wherein R1 represents hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are the same or different, and each represents hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, etc., and each of R2 and R3, R3 and R4, and R4 and R5 may be together combined to form a ring which may contain one or more (preferably 1 to 2) oxygen atoms, and R6 and R7 are the same or different, and each represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, etc.).

Abstract: The invention concerns a resolution method for a racemic mixture of aldehyde of formula (I). The aldehydes of formula I are useful in their enantiomeric form or their racemic form for preparing transition metal complexes useful as catalysts in hydroformylation reactions of olefins.

Abstract: Chiral di-phosphonites and phosphhours diamides based on the ps-ortho disubstituted p-cyclophane skeleton are good ligands for transition metals, notably rhodium, iridium and ruthenium. Preferably, the transition metals are linked to the ligands by a diene compound chosen from 2,5-Norbornadiene (NBD) and 1,5-Cyclooctadiene (COD).

Abstract: A subject of the present invention is new 6,6′-bis-(1-phosphanorbornadiene) diphosphines, their preparation process and their use in asymmetrical catalysis.

Abstract: The invention provides novel &bgr;-lactamase inhibitors, which are structurally unrelated to the natural product and semi-synthetic &bgr;-lactamase inhibitors presently available, and which do not possess &bgr;-lactam pharmacophore. These new inhibitors are fully synthetic, allowing ready access to a wide variety of structurally related analogs. Certain embodiments of these new inhibitors also bind bacterial DD-peptidases, thus potentially acting both as &bgr;-lactamase inhibitors and as antibiotics.

Abstract: P-chiral bisphospholane ligands and methods for their preparation are described. Use of metal/P-chiral bisphospholane complexes to catalyze asymmetric transformation reactions to provide high enantiomeric excesses of formed compounds is also described.

Abstract: Bidentate phosphine ligands of the formula 1

Abstract: Chiral ligands and metal complexes based on such chiral ligands useful in asymmetric catalysis are disclosed. The metal complexes according to the present invention are useful as catalysts in asymmetric reactions, such as, hydrogenation, hydride transfer, allylic alkylation, hydrosilylation, hydroboration, hydrovinylation, hydroformylation, olefin metathesis, hydrocarboxylation, isomerization, cyclopropanation, Diels-Alder reaction, Heck reaction, isomerization, Aldol reaction, Michael addition; epoxidation, kinetic resolution and [m+n] cycloaddition. Processes for the preparation of the ligands are also described.

Abstract: A phosphine compound of formula (1) 1

Abstract: The invention provides novel &bgr;-lactamase inhibitors, which are structurally unrelated to the natural product and semi-synthetic &bgr;-lactamase inhibitors presently available, and which do not possess a &bgr;-lactam pharmacophore. These new inhibitors are fully synthetic, allowing ready access to a wide variety of structurally related analogs. Certain embodiments of these new inhibitors also bind bacterial DD-peptidases, thus potentially acting both as &bgr;-lactamase inhibitors and as antibiotics.

Abstract: Bidentate phosphine ligands of the formula wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification and a process for preparing linear aldehydes by hydroformylating internal olefins using such phosphine ligands.

Abstract: This invention relates to processes for making phosphorus compounds R2P—X—PR2, R2P—M, R2P—L and R3P, and the novel cation R2P+(L)—X—P+(L)R2, where R represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group, X represents a bridging group, L represents a leaving group and M represents an alkali metal atom. The invention relates further to a process for making a compound R2P—L from a compound R—H via a new process for making the compound R—Li followed by its reaction with a compound Hal2P—L. The compound R2P—X—PR2 is a ligand suitable for making catalysts for copolymerizing carbon monoxide and a olefinically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the preparation of a cyclic phosphine from the corresponding primary phosphine and a bifunctional alkylating agent, wherein alkylation, and displacement of each functional group, occurs in the presence of a strong base, is modified by adding the strong base, in an amount sufficient for cyclisation, to a preformed mixture or reaction product of the primary phosphine and the alkylating agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel complexes of (transition) metals containing ligands having phosphorus centers supporting a carbene atom or heteroalkane radical bonded to the (transition) metal.

Abstract: Chiral phosphine ligands derived from chiral natural products including D-mannitol and tartaric acid. The ligands contain one or more 5-membered phospholane rings with multiple chiral centers, and provide high stereoselectivity in asymmetric reactions.

Abstract: Chiral ligands and transition metal complexes based on such chiral ligands useful in asymmetric catalysis are disclosed. The chiral ligands include phospholanes, P,N ligands, N,N ligands, biphenols, and chelating phosphines. The ferrocene-based irridium (R,R)-f-binaphane complex reduces imines to the corresponding amines with 95-99.6% enantioselectivity and reduces &bgr;-substituted-&agr;-arylenamides with 95% enantioselectivity. The transition metal complexes of the chiral ligands are useful in asymmetric reactions such as asymmetric hydrogenation of imines, asymmetric hydride transfer reactions, hydrosilylation, hydroboration, hydrovinylation, hydroformylation, allylic alkylation, cyclopropanation, Diels-Alder reaction, Heck reaction, isomerization, Aldol reaction, Michael addition and epoxidation reactions.

Abstract: A subject of the present invention is new 6,6′-bis-(1-phosphanorbornadiene) diphosphines, their preparation process and their use in asymmetrical catalysis. The new diphosphines correspond to general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 are as defined in claim 1.

Abstract: Compounds of formula III, wherein R6 und R7 signify identical or different secondary phosphino; R8 is —CH2—OH, —CH2—NH2, —CH2—O—B—FU, —CH2—NH2—B—FU, or —O—B—FU; R9 has the same significance as R8 or is C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-alkoxy; or R8 and R9 together signify HOCH(CH2—O—)2, H2NCH—(CH2—O—)2, FU—B—OCH(CH2—O—)2 or FU-B-HNCH(CH2—O—)2; B is a bridging group; and FU is a functional group. The compounds may be bonded to inorganic or organic carriers. Their d-8 metal complexes are valuable catalysts for the enantioselective hydrogenation of prochiral organic compounds with carbon multiple bonds or carbon/hetero atom multiple bonds.

Abstract: Phosphabenzene compounds of the formula (I) where the radicals R1 to R13 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, COOM, SO3M, NR3X, NR2, OR, COOR or SR (where M=hydrogen, NH4 or alkali metal, X=anion, R=hydrogen or C1-C6-alkyl), or C1-C12-alkyl, C6-C12-aryl, C7-C12-aralkyl, C7-C12-alkaryl or C3-C6-heteroaromatics, where the alkyl, aryl, alkaryl and aralkyl radicals may bear the abovementioned radicals as substituents and two or more of the radicals may be joined to form aliphatic or fused-on rings, where at least one of the radicals R4 and R8 and at least one of the radicals R9 and R13 is not hydrogen, can be used for preparing hydroformylation catalysts.

Abstract: Enantiomerically enriched N-acylated &bgr;-amino acids are synthesized by catalytic enantioselective hydrogenation of E-isomers and Z-isomers of 3-amino acrylic acid derivatives in the presence of a catalysts of formula (I)

Abstract: Novel reactions used to prepare phosphole and bisphosphole compounds are detailed. Novel phosphole compounds and metal coordination compounds of phosphole and bisphosphole compounds are also provided. These metal coordination compounds are useful as catalysts for the polymerization or olefins with carbon monoxide and for the polymerization of acrylic monomers.

Abstract: A compound of the following formula: 1

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the selective oxidation of alcohols to ketones or to aldehydes by means of an alkali hypohalite under alkaline conditions, which comprises carrying out the oxidation in the presence of a heterogeneous oxidation catalyst that is insoluble in the reaction medium and is selected from the group comprising the compounds of formula (I) (III), wherein n is a number from 3 to 3000; or a 4-oxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl that is 4-oxy-bound to a Merrifield polymer. The invention relates also to the compounds of formulae (II) and (III) and to the use of the above-mentioned oxidation catalysts for the oxidation of alcohols.

Abstract: Novel chemical compounds have an ionic structure and in combination with an organometallic transition metal compound form a catalyst system which is advantageously used for the polymerization of olefins.

Abstract: &pgr;-complex compounds and in particular metallocene compounds of formula (Ia)(Ib), in which &pgr;I and &pgr;II represent &pgr;-systems, D designates a donor atom and A designates an acceptor atom, D and A being linked by a reversible coordinative bond such that the donor group assumes a positive (partial) charge and the acceptor group assumes a negative (partial) charge, at least one of D and A being part of the associated &pgr;-system in each case, M stands for a transition metal of the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th subgroup of the (Mendelian) periodic system of elements, X designates an anion equivalent and n designates the number zero, one, two three or four depending on the charges of M and those of &pgr;I and &pgr;II, are novel and can be used as catalysts for the (co)polymerization of olefins, i-olefins, alkines and/or diolefins or for ring-opening polyaddition.

Abstract: P-chiral bisphospholane ligands and methods for their preparation are described. Use of metal/P-chiral bisphospholane complexes to catalyze asymmetric transformation reactions to provide high enantiomeric excesses of formed compounds is also described.

Abstract: An efficient process for the production of substituted 10-chloro-phenoxaphosphines or 10 bromo-phenoxaphosphines by reaction of substituted diphenyl ethers with phosphorus trihalogenide in the presence of at least one Lewis acid and subsequent treatment with an amine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to optically active diphosphines. It is also targeted at their preparation according to a process for the resolution of the racemic mixture of the said phosphines to optically active isomers.

Abstract: A subject of the present invention is new 6,6′-bis-(1-phosphanorbornadiene) diphosphines, their preparation process and their use in asymmetrical catalysis.

Abstract: Bidentate phosphine ligands of the formula wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification and a process for preparing linear aldehydes by hydroformylating internal olefins using such phosphine ligands.

Abstract: A subject of the present invention is new 6,6′-bis-(1-phosphanorbornadiene) diphosphines, their preparation process and their use in asymmetrical catalysis.

Abstract: Compounds of formula III, wherein R6 und R7 signify identical or different secondary phosphino; R8 is —CH2—OH, —CH2—NH2—, —CH2O——B—FU, —CH2—NH2—B—FU, or —O—B—FU; R9 has the same significance as R8 or is C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-alkoxy; or R8 and R9 together signify HOCH(CH2—O—)2, H2NCH—(CH2—O—)2, FU—B—OCH(CH2—O—)2 or FU—B—HNCH(CH2—O—)2; B is a bridging group; and FU is a functional group. The compounds may be bonded to inorganic or organic carriers. Their d-8 metal complexes are valuable catalysts for the enantioselective hydrogenation of prochiral organic compounds with carbon multiple bonds or carbon/hetero atom multiple bonds.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of phosphabenzene compounds of the formulae I and II where R1 to R6, independently of one another, are hydrogen, COOM SO3M, NR3X, NR2, OR, COOR or SR, where M is hydrogen, NH4 or an alkali metal, X is an anion, R is hydrogen, C1-6-alkyl, or C1-12-alkyl, C6-12-aryl, C7-12-aralkyl or C3-6-heterocycloalkyl having 1 to 3 heteroatoms which may be substituted by the above radicals or linked to form fused rings, and —W— is a bridge comprising a covalent bond, an oxo group, a sulfur group, an amino group, a di-C1-6-alkylsilicon group or a C1-16-radial, which may be part of one or more linked cyclic or aromatic rings and may be interrupted by 1 to 3 heteroatoms, where the phosphabenzene ring o- or m-position not bonded to the bridge may carry one of the radicals R1 to R6, with the exception of bis-3,3′-(2,4,6-triphenyl-3-phosphabenzene)-1,1-biphenyl, by reacting corresponding pyrilium salts with PH3 in the presence of a catalytic amount of acid and in

Abstract: Phosphabenzene compounds of the formulae I and II where R1 to R6 are identical or different and are, for example, hydrogen, are prepared by reacting corresponding pyrylium salts with PH3 in the presence or absence of a solvent or diluent. The pyrylium salts are combined with PH3 at above 0° C. and reacted at a temperature in the range from 0° C. to 200° C. and a pressure above 1 bar without addition of an acid catalyst or a base.

Abstract: A novel cyclotetraphosphazene compound, 1,1-diamino-3,3,5,5,7,7-hexaazidocyclotetraphosphazene, is disclosed which has application as an energetic compound and percussion primer. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the compound.

Abstract: A novel cyclotetraphosphazene compound, 1,5-diamino-1,3,3,5,7,7-hexaazidocyclotetraphosphazene, is disclosed which has application as an energetic compound. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the compound.