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Ru-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenative/Transfer Hydrogenative Desymmetrization of Meso-Epoxy Diketones
Hong, Yuping,Chen, Jianzhong,Zhang, Zhenfeng,Liu, Yangang,Zhang, Wanbin
, p. 2640 - 2643 (2016)
Via a strategy of asymmetric reductive desymmetrization, chiral cis-epoxy naphthoquinols with multiple contiguous stereocenters and functional groups were synthesized with excellent enantioselectivities (96-99% ee) and diastereoselectivities (8/1-15/1). A combined asymmetric hydrogenation/transfer hydrogenation mechanism was proposed based on experimental results.
