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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2020 Apr 24;142(18):8194–8202. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b13165

Table 3.

Evaluating epimerization conditions

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entrya conditions % recovered 2a-anti % yield 2a-syn
1 Standard conditions <5 85
2 No NaOAc <5 74
3 No DCB 67 21
4 No NaOAc, no DCB 62 15
5b No NaOAc, no DCB, [Ir(dtbbpy)(ppy)2]PF6 <5 72
a

Yields determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy with 2,6-dimethoxytoluene as the external standard.

b

16 h reaction time.