文摘
A highly electron-rich P-chiral bis(trialkylphosphane) ligand MeO-BIBOP (1) was efficiently synthesized on large scale. The MeO-BIBOP鈥搑hodium complex exhibited remarkably high reactivities (up to 200,000 TON) for the hydrogenation of N-acetyl enamides to provide chiral acetamides on kilogram scale. In the meantime, a high-yielding, cost-effective, and practical preparation of N-acetyl enamide by reductive acylation of oxime was developed employing an in situ formation of Fe(II) acetate from Fe/AcOH/Ac2O.