Sodium tetraarylborates as effective nucleophiles in rhodium/diene-catalyzed 1,4-addition to beta,beta-disubstituted alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones: catalytic asymmetric construction of quaternary carbon stereocenters.
A rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition of sodium tetraarylborates to beta,beta-disubstituted alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones is described. Highly efficient asymmetric catalysis has also been achieved by employing a readily available chiral diene ligand, leading to the construction of quaternary carbon stereocenters with high enantioselectivity.
Shintani
Ryo
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Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. shintani@kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tsutsumi
Yosuke
Y
Nagaosa
Makoto
M
Nishimura
Takahiro
T
Hayashi
Tamio
T