Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-Substituted Furanones by Palladium-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of Unsymmetrical Allyl Acetates

Bin Mao, Dr. Yining Ji, Dr. Martín Fañanás-Mastral, Dr. Giuseppe Caroli, Auke Meetsma, Prof. Dr. Ben L. Feringa

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51: 3168–3173

doi: 10.1002/anie.201109075