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Gold(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cyclopropenation of Internal Alkynes

John F. Briones, Huw M. L. Davies

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012 · 221 citations · 55 references

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Abstract

Highly enantioselective cyclopropenation of internal alkynes with aryldiazoacetates was achieved using the binuclear gold catalyst (S)-xylylBINAP(AuCl)(2), activated by silver hexafluoroantimonate.

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