1. Ligand used in the ruthenium catalyzed, enantioselective hydrogenation of alkenes, carbonyls, and imines.
2. Ligand used in the rhodium-catalyzed cyclization of acetylenic aldehydes.
3. Ligand used in the iridium-catalyzed hydrogenative coupling of alkynes to aromatic and aliphatic N-arylsulfonyl aldimines.
4. Asymmetric Cu-catalyzed propargylic substitution with amines,4a and enamines.4b
5. Catalytic desymmetrizing intramolecular Heck reaction.
6. Assembly of 1,3-polyols.
7. Pd-catalyzed diastereo/enantioselective allylic alkylations of ketone enolates.
8. Enantioselective vinylogous Reformatsky-type addition.
9. Cu-catalyzed chemoselective preparation of 2-(pinacolato)boron- substituted allylcopper complexes.
and their In situ site-, diastereo-, and enantioselective additions to ketones.
