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SUBMITTER: Dell'Amico L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5412672 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170210 12
A photochemical organocatalytic strategy for the direct enantioselective β-benzylation of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes is reported. The chemistry capitalizes upon the light-triggered enolization of 2-alkyl-benzophenones to afford hydroxy-o-quinodinomethanes. These fleeting intermediates are stereoselectively intercepted by chiral iminium ions, transiently formed upon condensation of a secondary amine catalyst with enals. Density functional theory (DFT) studies provided an explanation for why the re ...[more]