Catalytic Reductive Coupling of Epoxides and Aldehydes: Epoxide??Ring Opening Precedes Carbonyl Reduction

C Molinaro, TF Jamison

Index: Molinaro, Carmela; Jamison, Timothy F. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2005 , vol. 44, # 1 p. 129 - 132

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Abstract

Transition-metal-catalyzed reductive coupling reactions have attracted considerable interest for several decades since the development of reductive polymerization of carbon monoxide by Fischer and Tropsch.[1] Hydroformylation [2] and the Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction [3] are other important examples, and in the past decade dozens of nickel-and rhodiumcatalyzed reductive coupling reactions have also been described.[4] Represented ...