These complexes catalyse efficient and highly enantioselective reactions. All these transformations are important in the synthesis of pharmaceutical intermediates. The work involves organic and organometallic synthesis, catalysis, chiral HPLC, NMR, X-ray crystallography, electrochemistry and theoretical calculations. The work involves most of the techniques mentioned above as well as manipulation of very air-sensitive materials using sophisticated inert atmosphere gloveboxes. Our work is of fundamental importance in the understanding of the bonding in f element compounds.
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