Enantioselective Synthesis of Alcohols and Amines: The Yang Synthesis of Colchicine
Guosheng Liu of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry devised the enantioselective Pd-catalyzed diacetoxylation of the alkene 1 to the bis-acetate 2 (Nature Catal. 2021, 4, 172. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-021-00574-5). Bingxian…