Angewandte Chemie International Edition

N??Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed C C Bond Cleavage in Redox Esterifications of Chiral Formylcyclopropanes

SS Sohn, JW Bode

Index: Sohn, Stephanie S.; Bode, Jeffrey W. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2006 , vol. 45, # 36 p. 6021 - 6024

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Citation Number: 140

Abstract

Ring-opening reactions of small, strained molecules translate the high degree of stereoselectivity inherent in the synthesis of diverse cyclic structures into the establishment of absolute stereochemistry in acyclic systems.[1] A disadvantage of many ring-opening processes, which are formally reduction reactions, is the necessity of stoichiometric reagents that are often expensive or toxic metals. To address this limitation, we recently developed ...