Highly Enantioselective Phenylacetylene Additions to Both Aliphatic and Aromatic Aldehydes

Ge Gao, David Moore, Ru-Gang Xie, and Lin Pu*
Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, and Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
Org. Lett., 2002, 4 (23), pp 4143–4146
DOI: 10.1021/ol026921r
Publication Date (Web): October 23, 2002
Copyright © 2002 American Chemical Society

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The readily available and inexpensive BINOL in combination with Ti(OiPr)4 is found to catalyze the reaction of an alkynylzinc reagent with various types of aldehydes including aliphatic aldehydes, aromatic aldehydes, and other α,β-unsaturated aldehydes to generate chiral propargyl alcohols with 91−99% ee at room temperature. No previous chiral catalysts have exhibited such a broad scope of enantioselectivity with respect to the type of aldehydes for this reaction.

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  • Published In Issue November 14, 2002
  • Received September 17, 2002

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