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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhou Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5800953 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20180104 2
The copper hydride (CuH)-catalyzed enantioselective reduction of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids to saturated aldehydes is reported. This protocol provides a new method to access a variety of β-chiral aldehydes in good yields, with high levels of enantioselectivity and broad functional group tolerance. A reaction pathway involving a ketene intermediate is proposed based on preliminary mechanistic studies and density functional theory calculations. ...[more]