A novel catalytic asymmetric route towards skipped dienes with a methyl-substituted central stereogenic carbon Huang, Yange; Fañanás-Mastral, Martín; Minnaard, Adriaan J.; Feringa, Bernard IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below.
Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2013Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Huang, Y., Fañanás-Mastral, M., Minnaard, A. J., & Feringa, B. (2013) 1, 132.8, 132.4, 131.6, 128.6, 128.1, 127.6, 126.4, 63.5.((1E,3E)-5-Bromopenta-1,3-dienyl)benzene (1a). To a stirred solution of NBS (4.17 g, 23.4 mmol, 1.3 eq) in DCM (40 mL) at -20 o C was added Me 2 S (0.98 g, 1.2 mL, 28.9 mmol, 1.83 eq) slowly over 5 min.The reaction mixture was stirred for 15 min before a solution of allylic alcohol 9 (2.5 g, 15.6 mmol) in 10 mL of DCM was added dropwise over 10 min. The mixture was quenched with a saturated aqueous NH 4 Cl solution (50 mL) when TLC showed full conversion and after the mixture was warmed up to room temperature, the layers were separated. The organic layer was washed with water (3 x 20 mL), dried over Na 2 SO 4 , filtered and concentrated to give crude 1a as a white solid (2.83 g, 81%) which was used in the next step (asymmetric allylic alkylation) immediately due to instability.
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