Richard Catlow and co-workers, based at the University College London, have used DFT to reveal new insights into the catalytic properties of cheap Fe complexes and have compared them to their more expensive and toxic Ru counterparts. The group look spectifically at these catalysts in ketone/alcohol hydrogen transfer reaction and show that the Fe compounds could be viable in these pharmaceutically important reactions. Read this group’s recent Dalton Transactions Hot Article for more info.
trans-FeII(H)2(diphosphine)(diamine) complexes as alternative catalysts for the asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones? A DFT study
Hsin-Yi Tiffany Chen, Devis Di Tommaso, Graeme Hogarth and C. Richard A. Catlow
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00820F
