Nucleophile Coordination Enabled Regioselectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic C-H Alkylation

Lian-Feng Fan1, Shi-Wei Luo1, Shu-Sen Chen1

  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.

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