A. Saitoh et al., A PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING CHIRAL AMIDINE LIGAND FOR ASYMMETRIC REACTIONS - ENANTIOSELECTIVE PD-CATALYZED ALLYLIC ALKYLATION, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 8(21), 1997, pp. 3567-3570
Phosphorus-containing amidine 7 was prepared through several steps fro
m L-valine 1. The new ligand for asymmetric reactions was evaluated in
the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation of 1, 3-diphenylprop-2-eny
l acetate and pivalate 8a, b with the nucleophile derived from dimethy
l malonate as a preliminary study. Excellent levels of asymmetric indu
ction up to 95% e.e. were achieved along with an efficient conversion.
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