Hu Xichao, Zhuang Minyang, Cao Ziping, Du Haifeng
Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Org Lett. 2009 Oct 15;11(20):4744-7. doi: 10.1021/ol901949n.
This paper describes that a simple and readily available chain diene (3R,4R)-hexa-1,5-diene-3,4-diol (L1) was successfully utilized as a novel steering ligand for Rh(I)-catalyzed asymmetric conjugated additions. Encouraging yields and ee's have been achieved, which may provide a new and practical direction for designing chiral diene ligands in the future.