Asymmetric Catalysis in Liquid Confinement: Probing the Performance of Novel Chiral Rhodium-Diene Complexes in Microemulsions and Conventional Solvents.

The role of liquid confinement on the asymmetric Rh catalysis was studied using the 1,2-addition of phenylboroxine (2) to N-tosylimine 1 in the presence of [RhCl(C H ) ] and chiral diene ligands as benchmark reaction. To get access to Rh complexes of different polarity, enantiomerically pure C -symmetric p-substituted 3,6-diphenylbicyclo[3.3.