Chemical Communications

Synthesis of α-keto esters by the rhodium-catalysed reaction of cyanoformate with arylboronic acids

H Shimizu, M Murakami

Index: Shimizu, Hiroshi; Murakami, Masahiro Chemical Communications, 2007 , # 27 p. 2855 - 2857

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Abstract

The rhodium-catalysed reaction of organoboron species with unsaturated organic compounds has emerged as a powerful method for carbon–carbon bond formation. 1 The reaction generally proceeds by transmetallation to generate an intermediate organorhodium species, which then undergoes 1,2-addition to alkynes , 2 alkenes , 3 aldehydes , 4 imines , 5 esters , 6 acid anhydrides , 7 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds 6,8 and nitriles 5h,9 in an intermolecular fashion. We have ...