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(57) [Summary] [Solution] General formula (1) (Wherein, R 1 represents a hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, and R 2 together with R 1 and an adjacent carbon atom form an aliphatic ring which may have a substituent. Or a hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent alone), and a transition metal containing a transition metal and a tertiary phosphine as a bidentate ligand. In the presence of a metal complex, a base and a diamine (where the tertiary phosphine as the bidentate ligand is racemic, the diamine is optically active, and the tertiary phosphine as the bidentate ligand is Asymmetric hydrogenation of a diamine being a racemic form when phosphine is an optically active substance). A method for producing an optically active alcohol compound represented by the formula: According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain various optically active alcohols with high purity, high yield and low cost by an industrially advantageous method. |