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SUBMITTER: Nguyen KD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5094804 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20161020 43
The first catalytic enantioselective C-C couplings of methanol (>30 × 10<sup>6</sup> tons/year) are reported. Insertion of 2-substituted dienes into the methanol C-H bond occurs in a regioselective manner to form all-carbon quaternary centers with excellent levels of enantioselectivity using an iridium-PhanePhos catalyst. Mechanistic studies corroborate a Curtin-Hammett scenario in which methanol dehydrogenation triggers rapid, reversible diene hydrometalation en route to regioisomeric allylirid ...[more]