Tandem Asymmetric Cyclopropanation/Cope Rearrangement. A Highly Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Method for the Construction of 1,4-Cycloheptadienes
Decomposition of vinyldiazoacetates by rhodium(II)(N-dodecylbenzenesulfonyl)prolinate(Rh2(S-DOSP)4, 1) in the presence of dienes results in adirect and highly enantioselective method for theformationof cis-divinylcyclopropanes. Combination of thisprocess with a subsequent Cope rearrangement results in ahighly enantioselective synthesis of a variety of cycloheptadienescontaining multiple stereogenic centers.