William J. Kerr, David M. Lindsay, Vipulkumar K. Patel and Muralikrishnan Rajamanickam
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 10131-10135
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB01849H,
Communication
Efficient conversion of ketones into kinetic enol phosphates under mild and accessible conditions has been realised using the developed methods with di-tert-butylmagnesium and bismesitylmagnesium. Optimisation of the quench protocol resulted in high yields of enol phosphates from a range of cyclohexanones and aryl methyl ketones, with tolerance of a range of additional functional units.