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SUBMITTER: Bee C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2860773 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20080212 9
We report the first enantioselective reductive aldol couplings of vinyl ketones, which were achieved through the design of a novel monodentate TADDOL-like phosphonite ligand. Specifically, hydrogenation of commercially available methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) or ethyl vinyl ketone (EVK) in the presence of aldehydes 1a-7a using cationic rhodium catalysts modified by chiral TADDOL-like phosphonite ligands AP-I and AP-IV produces aldol adducts 1b-7b and 1c-7c with excellent control of relative and absol ...[more]