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SUBMITTER: Cook AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4806781 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20160125 8
The asymmetric addition of terminal ynamides to trifluoromethyl ketones with a readily available chiral zinc catalyst gives CF3 -substituted tertiary propargylic alcohols in up to 99 % yield and 96 % ee. The exclusion of organozinc additives and base as well as the general synthetic utility of the products are key features of this reaction. The value of the β-hydroxy-β-trifluoromethyl ynamides is exemplified by selective transformations to chiral Z- and E-enamides, an amide, and N,O-ketene aceta ...[more]