Rh-Catalyzed diastereoselective desymmetrization of enone tethered-cyclohexadienones tandem arylative cyclization

The rhodium-catalyzed arylative cyclization of enone tethered-cyclohexadienones has been developed with high efficiency, thus providing cis -fused bicyclic enones in good yields and with excellent diastereoselectivities. Furthermore, this mild transformation has a broad range of substrate scope and excellent functional group tolerance. In addition, bicyclic products have an enone functionality, which can be a synthetically valuable handle for further transformations. The rhodium-catalyzed arylative cyclization of enone tethered-cyclohexadienones has been developed with high efficiency, thus providing cis -fused bicyclic enones in good yields and with excellent diastereoselectivities.