Alkene-Directed Regioselective Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Cyclic Anhydrides with Diorganozinc Reagents†
We thank Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Eli Lilly, and Boehringer-Ingelheim for support. T.R. thanks the Monfort Family Foundation for a Monfort Professorship. T.R. is a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. J.L.M. thanks the NIH for a Ruth Kirchstein NRSA predoctoral fellowship.