Development of Rhodium-catalyzed Reactions for the Enantioselective Desymmetrization and Carbonylation of meso Alkenes

This thesis describes the discovery of catalytic reactions that create carbon-carbon bonds stereoselectively between substrates bearing an alkene and organoboronic acids reagents. Chiral rhodium(I) catalysts were found to react with various meso-symmetrical substrates, thereby resulting in enantiose...

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Main Author: Menard, Frederic
Other Authors: Lautens, Mark
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29974