Zirconium-catalyzed enantioselective carboalumination of "unactivated"
alkenes as a new synthetic tool for asymmetric carboncarbon bond
formation*
Ei-ichi Negishi and Shouquan Huo
Herbert C. Brown Laboratories of Chemistry, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393, USA
Abstract: The discovery, methodological developments, including
those for separationpurification of chiral flexible primary alcohols,
and their applications to the syntheses of some natural products of
the titled reaction are discussed.
*Lecture presented at the 11th IUPAC International
Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis
(OMCOS-11), Taipei, Taiwan, 22-26 July 2001. Other presentations are
presented in this issue, pp.1-186.
**Corresponding author.
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