posted on 2010-12-03, 00:00authored byShu-Sheng Zhang, Zhi-Qian Wang, Ming-Hua Xu, Guo-Qiang Lin
The first palladium−diene-catalyzed asymmetric Suzuki−Miyaura coupling reaction has been achieved. A number of functionalized biaryls were obtained in high yields and in moderate to high enantioselectivities. The existence of an ortho-formyl group greatly improves the catalyst efficiency and permits further synthetic elaborations.