Display options
Share it on

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Feb 11;52(12):2529-32. doi: 10.1039/c5cc09904h. Epub 2016 Jan 07.

Highly diastereoselective approach to methylenecyclopropanes via boron-homologation/allylboration sequences.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

A N Baumann, A Music, K Karaghiosoff, D Didier

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich, Butenandtstrasse 5-13, 81377 Munich, Germany. [email protected].

PMID: 26741566 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc09904h

Abstract

A simple and efficient diastereoselective synthesis of methylenecyclopropanes is described, in which boron-homologation and allylboration are merged into a one-pot process, starting from in situ generated cyclopropenyllithium species. This unprecedented methodology opens a new route to strained alkylidenecycloalkanes containing a quaternary stereocenter, in high yields and excellent diastereomeric ratios.

Publication Types