Abstract

Nickel-catalyzed additions of arylboronic acids to alkynes, followed by enantioselective cyclizations of the alkenylnickel species onto tethered ketones or enones, are reported. These reactions are reliant upon the formal anti-carbonickelation of the alkyne, which is postulated to occur by the reversible E/Z isomerization of an alkenylnickel species.

Highlights

  • T ransition-metal catalysis is utilized extensively in organic synthesis to prepare compounds required for numerous applications such as drug discovery, agrochemistry, and materials science

  • One strategy to obtain alkenylmetal species resulting from formal anti-carbometalation is to employ substrates with a heteroatom-containing substituent in close proximity to the alkyne

  • After syn-carbometalation, E/Z isomerization to the antiisomer is driven by the formation of a more stable, chelated alkenylmetal species, in which the metal is coordinated to the heteroatom.1b,2a,b,d,h effective, the requirement for a nearby heteroatom-containing group limits broader applicability

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Introduction

T ransition-metal catalysis is utilized extensively in organic synthesis to prepare compounds required for numerous applications such as drug discovery, agrochemistry, and materials science.

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