US 7,534,920 B2
Optically-active bis(alkynylphosphino) ethane-borane derivative and process for producing the same
Tsuneo Imamoto, Chiba (Japan); Kazuhiro Yoshida, Chiba (Japan); Youichi Saitoh, Chiba (Japan); and Aya Koide, Chiba (Japan)
Assigned to Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan); and National University Corporation Chiba University, Chiba-shi (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 05, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/73,415.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-060784 (JP), filed on Mar. 09, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0221362 A1, Sep. 11, 2008
Int. Cl. C07F 9/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 568—10 5 Claims
 
1. An optically-active bis(alkynylphosphino)ethane-borane compound represented by formula (1):

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group, a phenyl group, an alkylsilyl group or a hydrogen atom; R3 represents a branched alkyl group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group or an aromatic hydrocarbon group; and the asterisk * indicates an optically-active site.