Molecular recognition by artificial chiral catalysts utilizing a metal chelate. A remarkable difference in reactivity between geometrical isomers of silyl enolates in asymmetric aldol reactions using chiral Tin(II) catalysts

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)00505-7

A remarkable difference in reactivity between (E)- and (Z)-enolates in the asymmetric aldol reactions of silyl enolates with adehydes using chiral tin(II) Lewis acids was found. This difference can be interpreted to mean that the chiral catalyst coordinat