Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.135, No.3, 971-974, 2013
Simple Branched Sulfur-Olefins as Chiral Ligands for Rh-Catalyzed Asymmetric Arylation of Cyclic Ketimines: Highly Enantioselective Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbon Stereocenters
New, simple, sulfinamide-based branched olefin ligands have been developed and successfully used in Rh-catalyzed asymmetric arylations of cyclic ketimines, providing efficient and highly enantioselective access to valuable benzosultams and benzosulfamidates containing a stereogenic quaternary carbon center. This is the first example of applying a sulfur-olefin ligand in catalytic asymmetric addition of imines.