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Chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes in natural product synthesis: Application of Ru-catalyzed asymmetric ring-opening/cross-metathesis and Cu-catalyzed allylic alkylation to total synthesis of baconipyrone C
Gillingham, Dennis G.,Hoveyda, Amir H.
, p. 3860 - 3864 (2008/02/14)
(Chemical Equation Presented) Chiral carbenes as major players: Two recently discovered chiral N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes play a crucial role in a concise enantioselective total synthesis of baconipyrone C (see scheme). An (NHC)Cu complex catalyzes a double asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA), and an (NHC)Ru complex catalyzes an asymmetric ring-opening/cross- metathesis (AROM/CM) to establish the absolute configuration of the target. RCM = ring-closing metathesis.