Magnesium bromide mediated highly diastereoselective heterogeneous hydrogenation of olefins.
Palladium on carbon combined with magnesium bromide catalyzed hydrogenation of Baylis-Hillman olefins to afford the corresponding aldol derivatives in a highly syn-diastereoselective manner is described. [reaction: see text]
Bouzide
Abderrahim
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