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SUBMITTER: Yip SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4497606 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20150423 23
Five-membered metallacycles are typically reluctant to undergo endocyclic β-hydrogen elimination. The rhodium-catalyzed isomerization of 4-pentenals into 3-pentenals occurs through this elementary step and cleavage of two C-H bonds, as supported by deuterium-labeling studies. The reaction proceeds without decarbonylation, leads to trans olefins exclusively, and tolerates other olefins normally prone to isomerization. Endocyclic β-hydrogen elimination can also be controlled in an enantiodivergent ...[more]