James T. Fleming, Arne Ficks, Paul G. Waddell, Ross W. Harrington and Lee J. Higham
Dalton Trans., 2016,45, 1886-1890
DOI:
10.1039/C5DT04475H,
Communication
A series of enantiopure MOP-phosphonite ligands, with tailored steric profiles, have been synthesised and are proven to be very successful in high-yielding, regio- and enantioselective catalytic hydrosilylation reactions of substituted styrenes, affording important chiral secondary alcohols.