M. Cook, T. Rovis
Jul 10, 2007
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
Abstract
A rhodium phosphinooxazoline system allows for an efficient enantioselective desymmetrization of dimethyl glutaric anhydride. Both commercially available and in situ generated sp3-organozinc nucleophiles couple efficiently in high enantiomeric excess. This chemistry has also been extended to other 3,5-disubstituted anhydrides, and further elaboration has enabled the synthesis of potentially useful syn-deoxypolypropionate fragments.