Mn(I)-Catalyzed Carbon-Skeleton Rearrangement of Tertiary Alcohol-Based Aldol Reaction with Aldehydes.
Yanshuo XuanCan YangHuan-Feng JiangWei ZengPublished in: The Journal of organic chemistry (2024)
A Mn-catalyzed ligand-directed Csp 3 -Csp 2 coupling of tertiary allylic alcohols with arylaldehydes has been developed. The method provides an efficient approach to access 1,5-diarylpent-1-en-3-ones via carbon-skeleton rearrangement-based aldol reaction.