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Accessing Valuable Ligand Supports for Transition Metals: A Modified, Intermediate Scale Preparation of 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene
Published on: March 20, 2017
A Unified Strategy for the Synthesis of Diverse Bicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene Ligands
Wen-Tao Chen1,2, Wen-Cai Luo1,2, Jun-Ting Liang1,2
1Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Abstract:
A new approach for the enantioselective synthesis of various bicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene ligands has been developed, which features a chiral oxazaborolidinium-catalyzed asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction to construct the bicyclo[2.2.2]octane framework. The pivotal ketone 12 served as a common intermediate that was finally transformed into the desired C1- and C2-symmetric chiral dienes. This work provides an alternative method to the reported chiral diene synthesis and would be beneficial to exploration of the potentials of this type of versatile ligand in new asymmetric transformations.
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