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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 129, Issue 44, Pages 13455-13463Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja072571y
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This investigation examines the origin of enantioselection in the desymmetrization of an acyclic prochiral Heck cyclization precursor. High asymmetric induction (97-98% ee) is attributed to a temporary interaction of a Lewis basic oxygen donor with weakly Lewis acidic palladium(II). A series of control experiments combined with quanium-chemical model calculations provided sound evidence for a mechanism involving oxygen donor-mediated, rapid equilibration of diastereomeric alkene-palladium(II) complexes prior to the selectivity-determining ring-closing event, a Curtin-Hammett scenario. Our study also highlights the importance of the cationic pathway (triflate counter anions versus halide, ligand) and alkene stereochemistry (E versus Z) in asymmetric Heck reactions.
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