Rate Profiling the Impact of Remote Functional Groups on the Redox-Relay Heck Reaction

The
redox-relay Heck reaction is a powerful method for the construction
of enantioenriched quaternary stereocenters remote from existing functional
groups. However, there has been little success in the design of site-selective
alkene functionalization based on these methods. Herein, we show that
experimentally determined rates can be used to train a multivariate
linear regression model capable of predicting the rate of a specific
relay Heck reaction, allowing for the site-selective functionalization
of diene substrates.