Heterogeneous Enantioselective Hydrogenation: pH Dependence and Interplay between CatalyticEfficacy and Surface Composition Tsutomu Osawa,* 1 Tomoko Kizawa, 2 Shinji Ikeda, 2 Takayuki Kitamura, 2 Yoshihisa Inoue, 3 and Victor Borovkov* 2,3 1 Graduate School of Science and Engineering for Research, University of Toyama, Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555 2 Metek Kitamura Co., Ltd., 1 Warada-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku, Kyoto 601-8133 3 Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Received June 14, 2013; CL-130553; E-mail: osawa@sci.u-toyama.ac.jp, victrb@chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp) The modification pH effectively controls the surface composition of Ni catalyst and in turn the outcome of enantioselective hydrogenation. REPRINTED FROM Vol.42 No.10 2013 p.1225–1226 CMLTAG October 5, 2013 The Chemical Society of Japan Published on the web July 3, 2013; doi:10.1246/cl.130553