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SUBMITTER: Cabrera JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206506 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20180718 30
Enantioselectivity increases with increasing carbonyl electrophilicity in 2-propanol-mediated reductive couplings of aldehydes with branched aryl-substituted allylic acetates to form products of carbonyl anti-(α-aryl)allylation. This unusual phenomenon is caused by aldehyde coordination to diastereomeric kinetic vs thermodynamic carbonyl binding sites that deliver enantiomeric products. Exploiting this effect, anti-diastereo- and enantioselective (α-aryl)allylations of fluoral hydrate and difluo ...[more]