- Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Borylation of Racemic Secondary Benzylic Electrophiles
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Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling has emerged as the most versatile approach to date for achieving enantioconvergent carbon–carbon bond formation using racemic alkyl halides as electrophiles. In contrast, there have not yet been reports of the application of chiral nickel catalysts to the corresponding reactions with heteroatom nucleophiles to produce carbon–heteroatom bonds with good enantioselectivity. Herein, we establish that a chiral nickel/pybox catalyst can borylate racemic secondary benzylic chlorides to provide enantioenriched benzylic boronic esters, a highly useful family of compounds in organic synthesis. The method displays good functional group compatibility (e.g., being unimpeded by the presence of an indole, a ketone, a tertiary amine, or an unactivated alkyl bromide), and both of the catalyst components (NiCl2?glyme and the pybox ligand) are commercially available.
- Wang, Zhaobin,Bachman, Shoshana,Dudnik, Alexander S.,Fu, Gregory C.
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supporting information
p. 14529 - 14532
(2018/09/14)
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- Nickel-catalyzed asymmetric cross-couplings of racemic propargylic halides with arylzinc reagents
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A stereoconvergent method for the catalytic asymmetric Negishi cross-coupling of racemic secondary propargylic halides with arylzinc reagents has been developed. Neither family of compounds has previously been shown to be a suitable partner in such coupling processes. From a practical point of view, it is noteworthy that the catalyst components (NiCl2·glyme and pybox ligand 1) are commercially available. Copyright
- Smith, Sean W.,Fu, Gregory C.
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supporting information; scheme or table
p. 12645 - 12647
(2009/05/09)
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- Enantioselective acylation of primary and secondary alcohols catalyzed by lipase QL from Alcaligenes sp.: A predictive active site model for lipase QL to identify which enantiomer of an alcohol reacts faster in this acylation
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Lipase QL (from Alcaligenes sp.)-catalyzed acylation of alcohols using isopropenyl acetate as the acylating agent in diisopropyl ether converted preferentially primary alcohols with an S configuration and secondary alcohols with an R configuration into the corresponding homochiral acetates. On the basis of observed enantiomer selectivities, a predictive active site model for lipase QL is proposed for identifying which enantiomer of a primary or a secondary alcohol reacts faster in this acylation. Copyright (C) 1996 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
- Naemura, Koichiro,Murata, Masaki,Tanaka, Rie,Yano, Masashi,Hirose, Keiji,Tobe, Yoshito
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p. 3285 - 3294
(2007/10/03)
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