Patent ID: 7268250

Claim:
A process for producing an optically active compound represented by general formula (C) wherein R 1 denotes a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group or alicyclic hydrocarbon group, which may have a substituent, or a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group, or an amino group; R 2 and R 3 independently denote a hydrogen atom, or a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group or alicyclic hydrocarbon group, which may have a substituent, and R 1 and R 2 , R 1 and R 3 , or R 2 and R 3 may be bonded to each other to form a ring, R 4 denotes a hydrogen atom, or a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group or alicyclic hydrocarbon group, which may have a substituent; R 5 and R 6 independently denote a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group or alicyclic hydrocarbon group, which may have a substituent, or a straight-chain or branched C1 to C20 alkoxy group, and R 4 and R 5 , R 4 and R 6 , or R 5 and R 6 may be bonded to each other to form a ring; X and Y independently denote a single bond, or an oxygen atom; and m and n are independently 1 or 2, by reacting a compound represented by general formula (A) wherein R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 have the same meaning as above, and a compound represented by general formula (B) wherein R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , X, Y, m, and n have the same meaning as above, with an asymmetric metal complex obtained from an optically active nitrogen-containing compound and a complex of a metal of group VIII of the periodic table; with the proviso that the substituent is not a heteromonocyclic or heteropolycyclic group.