Tetrahedron

A convergent regiospecific synthesis of zirconium enolates

A Kasatkin, RJ Whitby

Index: Kasatkin, Aleksandra; Whitby, Richard J. Tetrahedron, 2003 , vol. 59, # 49 p. 9857 - 9864

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Abstract

Metallated oxiranes are widely used as nucleophiles, and as sources of carbenes, but their use as carbenoids is much less studied. 1 The term 'carbenoid' was initially used for 1-halo-1-metallo (usually lithio) species. 2 The ring-strain present in metallated oxiranes renders the alkoxide a sufficiently good leaving group that carbenoid properties may be observed. 1 We are interested in the insertion of carbenoids into carbon–metal bonds to afford new organometallic ...