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  • Title: A positional scanning approach to the discovery of dipeptide-based catalysts for the enantioselective addition of vinylzinc reagents to aldehydes.
    Author: Sprout CM, Richmond ML, Seto CT.
    Journal: J Org Chem; 2005 Sep 02; 70(18):7408-17. PubMed ID: 16122266.
    Abstract:
    [reaction: see text] A combinatorial library of dipeptide N-acylethylenediamine-based ligands was synthesized by parallel solid-phase methods. These ligands were screened in crude form as catalysts for the asymmetric addition of vinylzinc reagents to aldehydes to give chiral allylic alcohols. Three sites of diversity on the ligands were optimized using a positional scanning approach. The optimized structure from the library, ligand 54, was found to catalyze the formation of 10 different (E)-allylic alcohols with enantioselectivities ranging from 90% to 95% ee. This ligand was effective for both aromatic and alpha-branched aldehydes, and vinylzinc reagents derived from both bulky and straight chain terminal alkynes.
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