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Hydrogen borrowing catalysis using 1° and 2° alcohols: Investigation and scope leading to α and β branched products
Frost, James R.,Cheong, Choon Boon,Akhtar, Wasim M.,Caputo, Dimitri F.J.,Christensen, Kirsten E.,Stevenson, Neil G.,Donohoe, Timothy J.
, (2021)
The alkylation of a variety of ketones using 1° or 2° alcohols under hydrogen borrowing catalysis is described. Initial research focused on the α-alkylation of cyclopropyl ketones with higher 1° alcohols (i.e. larger than MeOH), leading to the formation of α-branched products. Our search for additional substrates with which to explore this chemistry led us to discover that di-ortho-substituted aryl ketones were also privileged scaffolds, with Ph? (C6Me5) ketones being the optimal choice. Further investigations revealed that this motif was crucial for alkylation with 2° alcohols forming β-branched products, which also provided an opportunity to study diastereoselective and intramolecular hydrogen borrowing processes.
