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Published in final edited form as: J Org Chem. 2016 Sep 8;81(18):8585–8594. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b01923

Table 3.

Osmium(0) catalyzed coupling of 1,2-diols dihydro-1j-1o with ethylene 2a to form tertiary alcohols 3j-3o.^a

Yields are of material isolated by silica gel chromatography. See Supporting Information for further experimental details.

Reaction conducted in mesitylene at 150 °C using Os₃(CO)₁₂ (3 mol%), XPhos (18 mol%), C₁₀H₁₅CO₂H (15 mol%).