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• 18913-31-0 2,3-butadien-1-ol 
• 63503-60-6 3-chlorophenylboronic acid 
• 648425-38-1 (2E)-3-(3'-chlorophenyl)but-2-en-1-ol 
• 99-02-5 3'-Chloroacetophenone 
• 648425-41-6 ethyl (2E)-3-(3'-chlorophenyl)but-2-enoate 

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• 1025403-24-0 C₁₀H₁₁ClO 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Stereodefined rhodium-catalysed 1,4-H/D delivery for modular syntheses and deuterium integration

Deuterium-incorporated compounds are of high interest owing to their importance in the pharmaceutical industry, organic synthesis and materials science. So far, the integration of deuterium into the inert, saturated magic methyl or methylene groups of covalent molecules remains challenging. Here, we present a 1,4-H delivery of allylic metallic species to provide a highly stereoselective and straightforward approach to 3-methyl-2(E)-enals or -enones from readily available 2,3-allenols and organoboronic acids. The reaction accommodates many synthetically versatile functional groups as well as multi-pharmacophores, and is not limited to the formation of 3-methyl derivatives. By applying 1,4-H or D delivery, deuterium atom(s) from differently deuterated allenols can be edited into the methyl or methylene groups of versatile organic skeletons, resulting in the efficient formation of 4-monodeuterated, 1,4- and 4,4-doubly deuterated, and 4,4,4-triply deuterated 2(E)-enals or -enones. These powerful platform molecules can provide straightforward paths to other deuterated compounds for different purposes. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Highly Selective and Catalytic Generation of Acyclic Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters via Functionalization of 1,3-Dienes with CO2

The catalytic asymmetric functionalization of readily available 1,3-dienes is highly important, but current examples are mostly limited to the construction of tertiary chiral centers. The asymmetric generation of acyclic products containing all-carbon quaternary stereocenters from substituted 1,3-dienes represents a more challenging, but highly desirable, synthetic process for which there are very few examples. Herein, we report the highly selective copper-catalyzed generation of chiral all-carbon acyclic quaternary stereocenters via functionalization of 1,3-dienes with CO2. A variety of readily available 1,1-disubstituted 1,3-dienes, as well as a 1,3,5-triene, undergo reductive hydroxymethylation with high chemo-, regio-, E/Z-, and enantioselectivities. The reported method features good functional group tolerance, is readily scaled up to at least 5 mmol of starting diene, and generates chiral products that are useful building blocks for further derivatization. Systemic mechanistic investigations using density functional theory calculations were performed and provided the first theoretical investigation for an asymmetric transformation involving CO2. These computational results indicate that the 1,2-hydrocupration of 1,3-diene proceeds with high π-facial selectivity to generate an (S)-allylcopper intermediate, which further induces the chirality of the quaternary carbon center in the final product. The 1,4-addition of an internal allylcopper complex, which differs from previous reports involving terminal allylmetallic intermediates, to CO2 kinetically determines the E/Z- and regioselectivity. The rapid reduction of a copper carboxylate intermediate to the corresponding silyl-ether in the presence of Me(MeO)2SiH provides the exergonic impetus and leads to chemoselective hydroxymethylation rather than carboxylation. These results provide new insights for guiding further development of asymmetric C-C bond formations with CO2