This thesis documents the development of rhodium-catalyzed traceless chelation-controlled hydroacylation reactions for the synthesis of a variety of ketone products. <strong>Chapter 1</strong> provides an overview of rhodium-catalyzed hydroacylation chemistry, focusing on the origin of chelation-controlled strategies and the benefits thereof. <strong>Chapter 2</strong> describes a sequential reaction involving alkene hydroacylation, sulfide elimination and boronic acid conjugate addition, which affords products with the initial sulfide coordinating group replaced by a stereochemically defined aryl group. <strong>Chapter 3</strong> demonstrates a sequential process involving alkyne hydroacylation, boronic acid conjugate addition and sulfide elimination, which provides enantioenriched β'-arylα,β-unsaturated ketones in a highly efficient and selective manner. <strong>Chapter 4</strong> illustrates a versatile chelating group, triazene, for hydroacylation reactions. Subsequent functionalization of aromatic C-H bonds, promoted by the same chelating unit, offers highly substituted phenyl ketone products. <strong>Chapter 5</strong> documents experimental procedures and data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:748949 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Gao, Ming |
| Contributors | Willis, Michael C. |
| Publisher | University of Oxford |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:487b65f9-d1f7-4fee-b2bb-358837866ca2 |
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