Enantioconvergent Arylation of Racemic Secondary Alcohols to Chiral Tertiary Alcohols Enabled by Nickel/N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis
作者:Yuan Cai、Shi-Liang Shi
DOI:10.1021/jacs.1c06614
日期:2021.8.11
available achiral alcohols via C–H functionalization is an ideal strategy to prepare value-added chiral higher alcohols. Herein, we disclose the first enantioconvergent upgrading reaction of simple racemic secondary alcohols to enantioenriched tertiaryalcohols. An N-heterocycliccarbene (NHC)-nickel catalyst was leveraged to enable this highly efficient formal asymmetric alcohol α-C–H arylation via