A Facile Pathway to Enantiomerically Enriched 3??Hydroxy??2??Oxindoles: Asymmetric Intramolecular Arylation of α??Keto Amides Catalyzed by a Palladium–DifluorPhos …
Organic group-transfer reactions from halides and triflates to carbonyl compounds are a useful CÀC bond-forming transformation. An example is the chromium-mediated Nozaki– Hiyama–Kishi (NHK) reaction,[1] whose utility has been demonstrated by numerous applications to total syntheses of complex natural products and biologically active compounds.[2] The requirement for stoichiometric amounts of toxic chromium salts—a ...