Abstract
A palladium/Cinchona alkaloid-catalyzed α-arylation between cyclic ketones and aryl halides under phosphine-free conditions is presented. The use of a simple, unmodified Cinchona alkaloid results in high levels of activity and selectivity with up to 93% ee. These enantioinduction levels are comparable or even higher than the ones reported using palladium/BINAP complexes. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first use of unmodified Cinchona alkaloids as ligands/catalysts in asymmetric transition metal complex-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.
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