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SUBMITTER: Yan JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20220110 1
Axially chiral styrenes bearing a chiral axis between a sterically non-congested acyclic alkene and an aryl ring are difficult to prepare due to low rotational barrier of the axis. Disclosed here is an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalytic asymmetric solution to this problem. Our reaction involves ynals, sulfinic acids, and phenols as the substrates with an NHC as the catalyst. Key steps involve selective 1,4-addition of sulfinic anion to acetylenic acylazolium intermediate and sequential E-sel ...[more]