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Efficient Synthesis of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via the Conjugate Addition of Functionalized Monoorganozinc Bromides
Published on: May 26, 2019
Highly selective rhodium catalyzed domino C-H activation/cyclizations
1Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCSA, BCH 4305, CH-1015 Lausanne.
Abstract:
The direct functionalization of carbon-hydrogen bonds is an emerging tool to establish more sustainable and efficient synthetic methods. We present its implementation in a cascade reaction that provides a rapid assembly of functionalized indanylamines from simple and readily available starting materials. Careful choice of the ancillary ligand---an electron-rich bidentate phosphine ligand--enables highly diastereoselective rhodium(i)-catalyzed intramolecular allylations of unsubstituted ketimines induced by a directed C-H bond activation and allene carbo-metalation sequence.
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