Mechanistic switch leading to highly efficient chirality transfer in Pd(0)-catalyzed coupling-cyclization of aryl iodides with 1:1 acid-base salts of 2,3-allenoic acids and L-(-)-cinchonidine or D-(+)-/L-(-)-alpha-methylbenzylamine. Enantioselective synthesis of highly optically active 3-aryl polysubstituted butenolides.
An efficient methodology provides an easy access to highly optically active polysubstituted butenolides starting from aryl halides and 1:1:salts of optically active 2,3-allenoic acid-base via an oxidative addition-coordinative cyclization-reductive elimination mechanism, which led to the high efficiency of this chirality isomerization reaction.
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, PR China. masm@pub.sioc.ac.cn
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