Synfacts 2011(7): 0753-0753  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260657
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

Counterion Can Reverse Enantioselection of Pd-AAA

Contributor(s): Hisashi Yamamoto, Zhi Li
B. M. Trost*, B. Schäffner, M. Osipov, D. A. A. Wilton
Stanford University, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
17 June 2011 (online)

Significance

In this report, the intramolecular palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative asymmetric allylic alkylation discovered in a total synthesis project is investigated in more detail using β-keto esters as the model substrates. The counterion has also been demonstrated to be the enantio­selectivity-determining factor.