Enantioselective Synthesis of Carbo- and Heterocycles through a CuH-Catalyzed Hydroalkylation Approach
Yi-Ming Wang, Nicholas C. Bruno, Ángel L. Placeres, Shaolin Zhu and Stephen L. Buchwald*
*Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States, Email:
sbuchwal
mit.edu
Y.-M. Wang, N. C. Bruno, A. L. Placeres, S. Zhu, S. L. Buchwald, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 10524-10527.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07061
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Abstract
A copper hydride-catalyzed, enantioselective, intramolecular hydroalkylation of halide-tethered styrenes enables the synthesis of enantioenriched cyclobutanes, cyclopentanes, indanes, and six-membered N- and O-heterocycles.
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Key Words
cyclobutanes, cyclopentanes, dimethoxymethylsilane, CuH
ID: J48-Y2015
