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SUBMITTER: Leverenz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6935867 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20191216 51
The oxadi-π-methane rearrangement of 2,4-cyclohexadienones to bicyclic ketones was found to proceed with high enantioselectivity (92-97% <i>ee</i>) in the presence of catalytic amounts of a chiral Lewis acid (15 examples, 52-80% yield). A notable feature of the transformation is the fact that it proceeds on the singlet hypersurface and that no triplet intermediates are involved. Rapid racemic background reactions were therefore avoided, and the catalyst loading could be kept low (10 mol %). Comp ...[more]