Highly stereoselective intramolecular Buchner reaction of diazoacetamides catalyzed by a Ru(ii)-Pheox complex.
Nga Phan Thi ThanhMasaya ToneHayato InoueIkuhide FujisawaSeiji IwasaPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2019)
This work reports the first efficient enantioselective intramolecular Buchner reaction of diazoacetamides. The Ru(ii)-Pheox catalyst was shown to be highly efficient in this transformation in terms of both the regio- and enantioselectivity (up to 99% ee) giving the desired products in quantitative yield.