Thioketone-directed rhodium(I) catalyzed enantioselective C-H bond arylation of ferrocenes was written by Cai, Zhong-Jian;Liu, Chen-Xu;Wang, Qiang;Gu, Qing;You, Shu-Li. And the article was included in Nature Communications in 2019.Formula: C31H32O2P2 This article mentions the following:
Planar chiral ferrocenes have received great attention in both academia and industry. Although remarkable progresses have been made over the past decade, the development of efficient and straightforward methods for the synthesis of enantiopure planar chiral ferrocenes remains highly challenging. Herein, authors report a rhodium(I)/phosphonite catalyzed thioketone-directed enantioselective C-H bond arylation of ferrocenes. Readily available aryl iodides are used as the coupling partners in this transformation, leading to a series of planar chiral ferrocenes in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities (up to 86% yield, 99% ee). Of particular note, heteroaryl coupled ferrocenes, which are difficult to access with previous approaches, can be obtained in satisfactory results. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, (((4S,5S)-2,2-Dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-diyl)bis(methylene))bis(diphenylphosphine) (cas: 37002-48-5Formula: C31H32O2P2).
(((4S,5S)-2,2-Dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-diyl)bis(methylene))bis(diphenylphosphine) (cas: 37002-48-5) belongs to chiral phosphine ligands. The synthesis of novel trialkylphosphines can be quite difficult, thereby limiting the scope of their chiral variants. Trivalent phosphorus compounds called phosphines have a tetrahedral electron-group geometry which makes them structurally analogous to amines.Formula: C31H32O2P2
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Phosphine ligand,
Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis