Chemical Communications 2013-Jan
A dinuclear ruthenium catalyst with a confined cavity: selectivity in the addition of aliphatic carboxylic acids to phenylacetylene.
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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.
