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Synfacts 2007(6): 0603-0603  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-968553
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Highly Enantioselective Alkenylzinc Additions to Aldehydes

Contributor(s): Mark Lautens, Yann Béthuel
A. L. Braga*, M. W. Paixao, B. Westermann*, P. H. Schneider, L. A. Wessjohann
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre, Brazil; Leibniz Institute of Plant Chemistry, Halle, Germany
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22 May 2007 (online)

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Significance

In the present article, the authors report on the asymmetric alkenylzinc additions to aldehydes. They use their recently developed aziri­dine amino alcohol ligand (Chem. Eur. J. in press) that is easily synthesized from commercially available amino acids.