Novel concepts in directed biaryl synthesis part 83 - Synthesis and atropo-diastereoselective ring cleavage of a [Cp*Ru]-complexed biaryl lactone: Experimental and computational investigations
G. Bringmann et al., Novel concepts in directed biaryl synthesis part 83 - Synthesis and atropo-diastereoselective ring cleavage of a [Cp*Ru]-complexed biaryl lactone: Experimental and computational investigations, ORGANOMETAL, 18(24), 1999, pp. 5017-5021
The planar-chiral biaryl lactone complex 5b is cleaved highly atropo-diaste
reoselectively by simple O-nucleophiles. Toward H-nucleophiles, it shows a
different reactivity behavior consistent with DF calculations using the Fuk
ui function.