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SUBMITTER: Dasgupta S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4819992 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20150925 47
An enantioselective, copper(I)-catalyzed addition of terminal alkynes to isochroman ketals to set diaryl, tetrasubstituted stereocenters has been developed. The success of this reaction relies on identification of a Cu/PyBox catalyst capable of distinguishing the faces of the diaryl-substituted oxocarbenium ion. This challenging transformation enables efficient conversion of readily available, racemic ketals into high-value enantioenriched isochroman products with fully substituted stereogenic c ...[more]