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Chemical Communications

A dinuclear ruthenium catalyst with a confined cavity: selectivity in the addition of aliphatic carboxylic acids to phenylacetylene†

Kwong-Chak Cheung,‡a   Wing-Leung Wong,‡a   Ming-Him So,a   Zhong-Yuan Zhou,a   Siu-Cheong Yana  and  Kwok-Yin Wong*a  

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a Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: kwok-yin.wong@polyu.edu.hk
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Abstract

A dinuclear ruthenium catalyst with a rigid anthracene spacer shows excellent regio- and stereo-selectivity in the atom-economic addition of aliphatic carboxylic acids to phenylacetylene, producing exclusively anti-Markovnikov enol-esters with high E/Z ratios of the isomers.

Graphical abstract: A dinuclear ruthenium catalyst with a confined cavity: selectivity in the addition of aliphatic carboxylic acids to phenylacetylene

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC38454J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Sep 2012
Accepted
03 Dec 2012
First published
11 Dec 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 710-712

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A dinuclear ruthenium catalyst with a confined cavity: selectivity in the addition of aliphatic carboxylic acids to phenylacetylene

K. Cheung, W. Wong, M. So, Z. Zhou, S. Yan and K. Wong, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 710 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC38454J

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