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SUBMITTER: Panish RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4900183 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20160316 16
A novel, mixed-ligand chiral rhodium(II) catalyst, Rh2(S-NTTL)3(dCPA), has enabled the first enantioselective total synthesis of the natural product piperarborenine B. A crystal structure of Rh2(S-NTTL)3(dCPA) reveals a "chiral crown" conformation with a bulky dicyclohexylphenyl acetate ligand and three N-naphthalimido groups oriented on the same face of the catalyst. The natural product was prepared on large scale using rhodium-catalyzed bicyclobutanation/ copper-catalyzed homoconjugate additio ...[more]