ChemInform Abstract: Stereochemically Controlled Asymmetric 1,2-Reduction of Enones Mediated by a Chiral Sulfoxide Moiety and a Lanthanum(III) Ion.

✍ Scribed by Shigeyasu Motohashi; Kouichi Nagase; Toshinori Nakakita; Takeshi Matsuo; Yoshikazu Yoshida; Takashi Kawakubo; Motofumi Miura; Masaharu Toriyama; Mikhail V. Barybin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 43 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201135089

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Reduction of (Z)‐β‐sulfinyl enones with NaBH~4~/ LaCl~3~·7H~2~O allows efficient access to enantiomerically pure allylic alcohols after desulfuration.