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)-H activation of ferrocenyl ketones is achieved through utilizing catalytic, inexpensive l-tert-leucine as a chiral transient directing group. The transformation allows rapid access to ferrocene scaffolds simultaneously possessing planar- and stereogenic central chirality, widely applied in the ferrocene-based chiral ligand families.
Xu et al. (Thu,) studied this question.