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SUBMITTER: Kennedy CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919771 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS central science 20160614 6
Sigmatropic rearrangements number among the most powerful complexity-building transformations in organic synthesis but have remained largely insensitive to enantioselective catalysis due to the diffuse nature of their transition structures. Here, we describe a synergistic ion-binding strategy for asymmetric catalysis of anionic sigmatropic rearrangements. This approach is demonstrated with the enantioselective [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement of α-allyloxy carbonyl compounds to afford highly enantioen ...[more]