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Synfacts 2010(4): 0436-0436  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219657
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Metal-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Hydro-metalation of Alkylidenecyclopropanes

Contributor(s): Hisashi Yamamoto, Patrick Brady
S. Simaan, A. F. G. Goldberg, S. Rosset, I. Marek*
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Université de Genève, Switzerland
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22 March 2010 (online)

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Significance

This method allows for the transformation of alkylidenecyclopropanes into useful building blocks with retention of stereochemical integrity. Hydrometalation products are quite useful due to the variety of transformations they can undergo.