Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Tamio Hayashi

Masayoshi Minai

Kazunori Iwakura

Yoshihiko Ito

Ichiki Takemoto

Isao Kurimoto

Norio Kawamura

Yasuhiro Uozumi

A tertiary phosphine compound of the formula (1): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.1' are hydrogen atoms or together form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together form a group of the formula (a): ##STR2## in which --.circle-solid. represent a bond to be bonded to the R.sup.3 group, and --.smallcircle. represents a bond to be bonded to the R.sup.2 group when R.sup.1 and R.sup.1 ' together form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, or when R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH-- or R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom and R.sup.3 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; A.sup.1 is a 3-trifluoromethylphenyl group or a 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl group when R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group when R.sup.1 is not a hydrogen atom or when R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 do not together form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--.

Optically active tertiary phosphine compound, transition metal complex

A tertiary phosphine compound of the formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent independently from each other a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, or together form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--; R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom or a cycloalkyl group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms or a lower alkyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom, a lower alkoxy group, a lower alkoxyalkoxy group or a phenyl group; X.sup.1 is a halogen atom when both R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are hydrogen atoms, or a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group when at least one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is not a hydrogen atoms; and m is an integer of 1 to 5, which is useful as a ligand of a transition metal complex that can catalyze various reactions.

Tertiary phosphine compound and transition metal complex comprising the

Optically active oxazoline-carboxylic acid derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkykl group which is substituted and has 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group which is substituted, a phenyl group, a phenyl group which is substituted, a vinyl group, a vinyl group which is substituted, an ethynyl group or an ethynyl group which is substituted;

Oxazoline-carboxylic acid derivatives and method for the preparation

An optically active arylacetic acid derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are each an hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a phenyl group; and Ar is a group of the formula: ##STR2## a group of the formula: ##STR3## wherein R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and are each a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a difluoromethoxy group, a trifluoromethyl group or a phenyl group is prepared in good conversion and optical yield by asymmetrically reducing an ethylenically unsaturated compound of the formula: ##STR4## wherein R.sub.1, and R.sub.2 and Ar are the same as defined above with hydrogen in the presence of a metal catalyst modified with a ligand selected from the group consisting of a specific optically active metallocenyl phosphine derivative and a specific optically active binaphthyl derivative.

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