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SUBMITTER: Gao Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5358539 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical science 20160902 1
Synthetic methods for the selective formation of all carbon quaternary centres in non-cyclic systems are rare. Here we report highly enantioselective Cu-catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition of alkylzirconium species to twelve different acyclic trisubstituted enones. A variety of sp<sup>3</sup>-hybridized nucleophiles generated by <i>in situ</i> hydrozirconation of alkenes with the Schwartz reagent can be introduced, giving linear products bearing quaternary centres with up to 98% ee. The meth ...[more]