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Published on: June 21, 2017
Palladium-catalyzed difunctionalization of enol ethers to amino acetals with aminals and alcohols
Yinjun Xie1, Jianhua Hu, Pan Xie
1State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A new strategy was developed for intercepting the palladium-alkyl species generated in Heck reaction via nucleophilic addition prior to the step of migratory insertion, which leads to a new palladium-catalyzed difunctionalization of enol ethers with aminals and alcohols to afford amino acetals. Mechanistic studies suggested that the cationic cyclometalated Pd(II) complex generated by the oxidative addition of aminal to a Pd(0) species was crucial for this unusual transformation.
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