Abstract
The highly diastereoselective Mukaiyama-Michael reaction has been designed. Suppression of an electron-transfer process is crucial for this purpose and the following conditions should be satisfied. (1) TiCl4 is employed as a Lewis acid. (2) Ketene silyl acetals have bulky siloxy and/or alkoxy group(s). (3) α-Enones have a bulky acyl group. The excellent syn- selectivity up to a 99:1 ratio is attained under these conditions. The selectivity is reversed to the anti-preference upon decreasing the size of the alkoxy group.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9409-9418 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 28 |
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| State | Published - 8 Jul 1996 |