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SUBMITTER: Yu RT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2747357 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20090101 13
CO! You had me at hello: The use of chiral biphenyl-based phosphoramidite ligands on rhodium provides an efficient [2+2+2] cycloaddition between terminal alkyl alkynes and alkenyl isocyanates (see scheme). The cycloaddition proceeds through a CO migration pathway, and facilitates a rapid four-step asymmetric synthesis of indolizidine (-)-209D. ...[more]