Memory of Chirality in Electron Transfer Mediated Benzylic Umpolung Reactions of Arene-Cr(CO)3 Complexes
- 26 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
- Vol. 38 (11) , 1620-1623
- https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19990601)38:11<1620::aid-anie1620>3.0.co;2-1
Abstract
As density functional calculations suggest, Cr(CO)3‐complexed benzylic radicals (such as 2) exhibit a significant degree of configurational stablility. This was exploited in an efficient method for the electron transfer mediated transformations of readily available 1‐arylalkanol–Cr(CO)3 derivatives 1 to afford alkylated products 3 in good yields and with a high degree of stereochemical retention.Keywords
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