Abstract
Under cobalt catalysis, diethylzinc mediates the conjugate reduction of alpha,beta-unsaturated amides to produce ethylzinc enolates that react with ketones in situ to produce tertiary alcohol-containing aldol products with up to >19:1 diastereoselectivity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4367-4370 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Organic letters |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 11 Oct 2007 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- ENANTIOSELECTIVE CONJUGATE ADDITION
- ASYMMETRIC ZN CATALYSIS
- DINUCLEAR ZINC CATALYST
- MANNICH-TYPE REACTION
- REFORMATSKY REACTION
- ET2ZN/LINKED-BINOL COMPLEX
- ALPHA-ARYLATION
- BETA-AMINO
- ORGANOZINC REAGENTS
- ORGANIC-SYNTHESIS