The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) and salts thereof,
The present invention further relates to catalytic complexes comprising a compound of formula I and uses thereof in the stereoselective synthesis of stereocentres, in particular, all-carbon quaternary stereocentres.
Syntheticroutes to α,α-disubstituted allylamines have been examined. Racemic compounds were conveniently prepared by thermal Overman rearrangements of primary allyl alcohols with trisubstituted double bonds, but rearrangement of these substrates by the only commercially available compound known to catalyze enantioselective Overman rearrangements, the cobalt oxazoline palladacycle (R)-COP-Cl, failed