Abstract

A catalytic asymmetric House-Meinwald rearrangement for the synthesis of both cyclic and acyclic ketones is disclosed. From readily accessible racemic tetrasubstituted epoxides, this approach provides efficient access to chiral ketones bearing α all-carbon quaternary stereocenters with high enantiocontrol. The observation of positive nonlinear effects and nontrivial kinetic feature provided important insights into the mechanism.

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