Abstract
Organic Chemistry The venerable Suzuki coupling reaction originally used palladium to pair up unsaturated carbon centers. The protocol has been widely extended to chiral saturated alkyl carbons, but control over product stereochemistry is a pressing challenge. Zhao et al. systematically studied how the properties of the phosphine ligands that are coordinated to the catalyst influence the stereochemical outcome. Certain electron-withdrawing phosphines favored retention of the initial configuration in chiral alkyltrifluoroborate reactants. Conversely, bulky electron-rich phosphines lead to inverted configurations in the products. Science , this issue p. [670][1] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aat2299
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