Direct Catalytic Enantioselective Benzylation from Aryl Acetic Acids
作者:Patrick J. Moon、Zhongyu Wei、Rylan J. Lundgren
DOI:10.1021/jacs.8b11390
日期:2018.12.19
We demonstrate that metal-catalyzed enantioselective benzylation reactions of allylic electrophiles can occur directly from aryl acetic acids. The reaction proceeds via a pathway in which decarboxylation is the terminal event, occurring after stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formation. This mechanistic feature enables enantioselective benzylation without the generation of a highly basic nucleophile