Highly diastereo- and enantioselective copper-catalyzed propargylic alkylation of acyclic ketone enamines for the construction of two vicinal stereocenters

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Nov 28;50(92):14459-62. doi: 10.1039/c4cc06863g.

Abstract

The first highly diastereo- and enantioselective propargylic alkylation of acyclic ketone enamines to form vicinal tertiary stereocenters has been reported by employing copper catalysis in combination with a bulky and structurally rigid tridentate ketimine P,N,N-ligand.