A. Marinetti et al., NEW CHIRAL PHOSPHETANES - SYNTHESIS AND USE IN THE PALLADIUM-CATALYZED ALLYLIC ALKYLATION, Journal of organometallic chemistry, 529(1-2), 1997, pp. 465-472
The new chiral phosphetane-acetals 4a-d and 10a-d were synthesized and
evaluated as coligands for the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation
of 1,3-diphenyl-2-propenyl acetate with sodium malonate. For each set
of epimeric phosphetanes, the enantiomeric excesses are highly depend
ent on the relative configurations of the various chiral centers. The
highest asymmetric induction was observed with phosphetane 4a. An X-ra
y crystal structure of the complex (allyl)PdCl(4a) is also reported.