1. Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 28 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia;2. Department of Chemistry, Ryazan State University, 46 Svoboda Street, 390000 Ryazan, Russia
Abstract:
A series of chiral diphosphite ligands bearing sterically congested carborane fragments have been prepared and applied in the Pd-catalyzed allylic amination of 1,3-diphenylallyl acetate with pyrrolidine and di-n-propylamine (up to 83% ee).