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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Top Curr Chem (Cham). 2016 May 30;374(3):35. doi: 10.1007/s41061-016-0028-0

Scheme 11.

Scheme 11

Conversion of secondary to tertiary alcohols via ruthenium(0) catalyzed C-C bond forming transfer hydrogenation with conjugated dienes.a

aYields are of material isolated by flash chromatography on silica gel. PCy3 = tricyclohexylphosphine.