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SUBMITTER: Cordier CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3803154 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130719 30
Although enantioconvergent alkyl-alkyl couplings of racemic electrophiles have been developed, there have been no reports of the corresponding reactions of racemic nucleophiles. Herein we describe Negishi cross-couplings of racemic α-zincated N-Boc-pyrrolidine with unactivated secondary halides, thus providing a one-pot, catalytic asymmetric method for the synthesis of a range of 2-alkylpyrrolidines (an important family of target molecules) from N-Boc-pyrrolidine, a commercially available precur ...[more]