T. Minami et al., DEVELOPMENT OF CHIRAL PHOSPHINE-LIGANDS BEARING A CARBOXYL GROUP AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC REACTION, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 6(10), 1995, pp. 2469-2474
A new chiral phosphine ligand bearing a carboxyl group, 3-(diphenylpho
sphino)butanoic acid, was developed and used for palladium catalyzed a
symmetric allylic alkylation of cyclic cis-allylic acetates such as 2-
cyclopentenyl, 2-cyclohexenyl, and 2-cycloheptenyl acetate. These acet
ates reacted with triethyl sodiophosphonoacetate in the presence of th
e palladium catalyst with the ligand to give the corresponding alkylat
ion products in good enantiomeric excesses.