Metal carbene-promoted sequential transformations for the enantioselective synthesis of highly functionalized cycloheptadienes.
A two-step, three-component coupling of an alkyne, enol ether, and vinyl diazoester was accomplished by use of successive metal carbene-catalyzed transformations. This efficient approach to cycloheptadienes is both diastereo- and enantioselective. Kinetic resolution was accomplished on dienol ethers bearing a racemic chiral center at the propargylic position. A model is offered which explains the observed selectivity and accounts for the reactivity difference between trans- and cis-dienol ethers.
Deng
Liang
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Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA.
Giessert
Anthony J
AJ
Gerlitz
Oksana O
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Dai
Xing
X
Diver
Steven T
ST
Davies
Huw M L
HM