Synfacts 2011(5): 0533-0533  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259870
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Heck Reaction Catalyzed by Chiral Phosphite-Oxazole/Imidazole Ligands

Contributor(s): Hisashi Yamamoto, Zhi Li
J. Mazuela, P. Tolstoy, O. Pàmies*, P. G. Andersson*, M. Diéguez*
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, Uppsala University, Sweden and University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Publikationsverlauf

Publikationsdatum:
15. April 2011 (online)

Significance

The authors developed a series of chiral phosphite-oxazole/imidazole ligands for the asymmetric intermolecular Heck reaction between 2,3-dihydrofuran and various aryl triflates. Microwave irradiation is also introduced to improve the efficiency of the reaction.