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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhou Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5587210 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20170606 24
The direct asymmetric copper hydride (CuH)-catalyzed coupling of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids to aryl alkenes to access chiral α-aryl dialkyl ketones is reported. A variety of substrate substitution patterns, sensitive functional groups, and heterocycles are tolerated in this reaction, which significantly expands the range of accessible products compared with existing hydroacylation methodology. Although mechanistic studies are ongoing, we propose that CuH-catalyzed silylation of unsaturated ...[more]