Chiral, Porous, Hybrid Solids for Highly Enantioselective Heterogeneous Asymmetric Hydrogenation of β‐Keto Esters

Catalytic building blocks: Chiral porous zirconium phosphonates containing Ru-binap moieties are synthesized by a molecular building-block approach, and characterized by a variety of techniques. These hybrid solids are used for enantioselective heterogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation of β-keto esters with ee values of up to 95 % (see picture). Ready tunability of such a molecular building-block approach promises to lead to useful heterogeneous asymmetric catalysts.