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SUBMITTER: Zbieg JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3439217 | biostudies-other | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120322 6079
The direct, by-product-free conversion of basic feedstocks to products of medicinal and agricultural relevance is a broad goal of chemical research. Butadiene is a product of petroleum cracking and is produced on an enormous scale (about 12 × 10(6) metric tons annually). Here, with the use of a ruthenium catalyst modified by a chiral phosphate counterion, we report the direct redox-triggered carbon-carbon coupling of alcohols and butadiene to form products of carbonyl crotylation with high level ...[more]