10.1002/anie.202010386
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a) Previously, we have reported
a
preliminary result about NiH-
transformation as well as mechanistic investigations are
currently in progress.
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note that toward the end of our work, Hu reported an elegant work
about NiH-catalyzed enantioselective reductive hydroalkylation of
alkenyl boronic esters with alkyl halides: S. Bera, R. Mao, X. Hu,
Acknowledgements
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For recent Ni(II)H-catalyzed enantioselective
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2020,
Support was provided by NSFC (21822105, 21772087), and
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
(020514380182). The authors thank Penglong Wang (Prof.
Congqing Zhu group) for assistance with X-ray structure
determination.
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Keywords: alkenes • asymmetric catalysis • hydroarylation •
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supplementary crystallographic data for this paper. These data can be
obtained free of charge from The Cambridge Crystallographic Data
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styrene.
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