Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Enantioselective decarboxylative chlorination of β-ketocarboxylic acids

  • Kazutaka Shibatomi,
  • Kazumasa Kitahara,
  • Nozomi Sasaki,
  • Yohei Kawasaki,
  • Ikuhide Fujisawa,
  • Seiji Iwasa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15600
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Due to the synthetic utility of the products, stereoselective halogenation is a powerful method for the synthesis of chiral compounds. Here the authors report an enantioselective decarboxylative chlorination, giving access to a range of α-chloroketones.