Nucleophilic Carbenes Derived from Dichloromethane
作者:Mingxin Liu、Nguyen Le、Christopher Uyeda
DOI:10.1002/anie.202308913
日期:2023.10.16
Nickel catalysts promote cyclopropanation reactions of electron-deficient alkenesusing dichloromethane as a methylene source. An asymmetric variant using a chiral pyridine-bis(oxazoline) ligand provides access to pharmaceutically relevant 2-aryl cyclopropyl carboxylates in highly enantioenriched form. The proposed mechanism involves the formation of a nucleophilic nickel carbene that reacts by a