This paper reports a method for highly enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction with an acetylene equivalent to produce chiral-bridged dienes. These dienes, by coordination to Rh(I), can serve as catalysts for the enantioselective addition of vinyl or aryl groups to alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones.
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Org Lett
January 2010
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard Univeristy, Cambdrige, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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