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Direct asymmetric aldol reactions of acetone using bimetallic zinc catalysts
B M Trost1, E R Silcoff, H Ito
1Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5080, USA. bmtrost@stanford.edu
Organic Letters
|August 3, 2001
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] The enantioselective aldol reaction using a novel binuclear zinc catalyst of acetone with several aldehydes gave products in good yields (62-89%) with a high level of enantioselectivity (ee = 76-92%).