Highly enantioselective addition of trimethylsilylacetylene to aldehydes catalyzed by a zinc-amino-alcohol complex

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/chem.201100535

A fine addition! A highly enantioselective and efficient procedure for the amino-alcohol-zinc-catalyzed addition of trimethylsilylacetylene to aromatic, α,β-unsaturated, and aliphatic aldehydes has been developed (see scheme; R=aryl, alkynyl, or alkyl; TMS=trimethylsilyl; TBDMS=tert- butyldimethylsilyl). The present protocol was successfully applied in the concise synthesis of the natural products marine alkynol and falcarindiol. Copyright