Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Phenylation of Ketones with a Constrained Geometry Titanium Catalyst
Celina García and Patrick J. Walsh*
*Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, Email: pwalsh
sas.upenn.edu
C. Garcia, P. J. Walsh, Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 3641-3644.
DOI: 10.1021/ol0352963
Abstract
The asymmetric addition of phenyl groups from diphenylzinc to ketones gives good to excellent enantioselectivity with a range of substrates, using a catalyst generated from a dihydroxy bis(sulfonamide) ligand and titanium tetraisopropoxide.
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ID: J54-Y2003-950
