THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF ENANTIOSELECTIVE CARBENOID ADDITION TO ORGANOCHALCOGEN ATOMS - APPLICATION TO [2,3]SIGMATROPIC REARRANGEMENT OF ALLYLIC CHALCOGEN YLIDES
Y. Nishibayashi et al., THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF ENANTIOSELECTIVE CARBENOID ADDITION TO ORGANOCHALCOGEN ATOMS - APPLICATION TO [2,3]SIGMATROPIC REARRANGEMENT OF ALLYLIC CHALCOGEN YLIDES, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (12), 1995, pp. 1245-1246
In the presence of a catalytic amount of chiral copper(i) or rhodium(i
i) compounds the enantioselective addition of a carbenoid, derived fro
m ethyl diazoacetate, to chalcogen atoms of aryl cinnamyl chalcogenide
s affords a diastereoisomeric mixture of ethyl 2-arylchalcogeno-3-phen
ylpent-4-enoates via [2,3]sigmatropic rearrangement of the intermediat
e chalcogen ylide with up to 41% ee.