Asymmetric catalytic intramolecular hydroacylation of 4-substituted pent-4-enals to β-substituted cyclopentanones
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 6,p. 589-590
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a700076f
Abstract
The catalyst, [Rh(S,S-Me-duphos)(acetone) 2 ] + , rapidly and efficiently converts 4-substituted pent-4-enals bearing primary and secondary substituents to the corresponding cyclopentanones and for a variety of substituents the ee was found to range from 93 to 96% at 25 °C.Keywords
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