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SUBMITTER: Hopkins BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3517004 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20120831 39
Positive water effect: A catalyst composed of [Pd(2)(dba)(3)] (dba=dibenzylideneacetone) and (S)-Siphos-PE is effective for the enantioselective coupling of N-allyl ureas with aryl bromides to afford 4-substituted imidazolidin-2-ones. Added water leads to significantly improved enantioselectivities with electron-poor aryl halide substrates. It is suggested that the C-C bond-forming reductive elimination is the enantiodetermining step in these reactions. ...[more]