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SUBMITTER: Walker JCL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856816 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190912 43
The design and gram-scale synthesis of a cyclohexa-1,4-diene-based surrogate of isobutene gas is reported. Using the highly electron-deficient Lewis acid B(C<sub>6</sub> F<sub>5</sub> )<sub>3</sub> , application of this surrogate in the hydromethallylation of electron-rich styrene derivatives provided sterically congested quaternary carbon centers. The reaction proceeds by C(sp<sup>3</sup> )-C(sp<sup>3</sup> ) bond formation at a tertiary carbenium ion that is generated by alkene protonation. Th ...[more]