Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Negishi Cross-Couplings of Racemic Secondary alpha-Bromo Amides with Alkylzinc Reagents: (S)-N-Benzyl-7-cyano-2-ethyl-N-phenylheptanamide

Procedure: A. (5-Cyanopentyl)zinc(II) bromide (1). An oven-dried, 200-mL pear-shaped Schlenk flask equipped with a magnetic stirbar (egg shaped, 25.4 × 12.7 mm) and an argon line connected to the standard taper outer joint is purged with argon for 5 min. Zinc powder (9.80 g, 150 mmol, 1.50 equiv) (N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lou, Sha, Fu, Gregory C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67713