Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (Jul 2011)

Cationic gold(I) axially chiral biaryl bisphosphine complex-catalyzed atropselective synthesis of heterobiaryls

  • Tetsuro Shibuya,
  • Kyosuke Nakamura,
  • Ken Tanaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.7.105
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 944 – 950

Abstract

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It has been established that a cationic gold(I)/(R)-DTBM-Segphos or (R)-BINAP complex catalyzes the atropselective intramolecular hydroarylation of alkynes leading to enantioenriched axially chiral 4-aryl-2-quinolinones and 4-arylcoumarins with up to 61% ee.

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