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SUBMITTER: Shen D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4344817 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20141209 5
Reported herein is the use of catalytic [{Ir(cod)Cl}2 ] to facilitate hydrogen-borrowing reactions of ketone enolates with methanol at 65 °C. An oxygen atmosphere accelerates the process, and when combined with the use of a bulky monodentate phosphine ligand, interrupts the catalytic cycle by preventing enone reduction. Subsequent addition of pro-nucleophiles to the reaction mixture allowed a one-pot methylenation/conjugate addition protocol to be developed, which greatly expands the range of pr ...[more]