Doubly stereoconvergent construction of vicinal all-carbon quaternary and tertiary stereocenters by Cu/Mg-catalyzed propargylic substitution

The construction of vicinal, congested stereocenters with high selectivities is of general utility in chemistry. Here the authors report a doubly-stereoconvergent, Cu/Mg-catalyzed asymmetric propargylic substitution reaction to convert simple starting materials to products with vicinal tertiary and...

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Main Authors: Xiang Pu, Qiu-Di Dang, Lei Yang, Xia Zhang, Dawen Niu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29986-y