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SUBMITTER: Lee JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3492513 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20121022 44
A 3-step asymmetric approach toward the optically active chiral cyclohex-2-enones from anisoles has been developed. The crucial asymmetric induction step is an unprecedented catalytic enantioselective isomerization of β,γ-unsaturated cyclohex-3-en-1-ones to the corresponding α,β-unsaturated chiral enones. This new asymmetric transformation was realized by cooperative iminium-base catalysis with an electronically tunable new organic catalyst. The synthetic utility of this methodology is highlight ...[more]