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ORGANIC LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 677-680Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ol802739d
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- NIH [GM-079339]
- Eli Lilly
- Bristol Myers Squibb
- Roche
- Royal Thai Government
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Chiral triazolium- and imidazolium-derived N-heterocyclic carbene catalysts promote the direct annulation of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes and achiral alpha-hydroxy enones to afford cyclopentane-fused lactones with high enantioselectivity. Remarkably, otherwise structurally identical imidazolium and triazolium precatalysts afford different major products. These studies provide both an efficient entry to valuable chiral structures and a dramatic demonstration of stereodivergency of chiral imidazolium versus triazolium-derived N-heterocyclic carbene catalysts.
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