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Differentiation of enantiotopic carbonyl groups by the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Tanaka,Ohta,Fuji,Taga
, p. 4071 - 4074 (1993)
A chiral phosphonoacetate 2 differentiates the enantiotopic carbonyl groups in an α-diketones 5 to afford the Z-olefin 6 in high yield and ee. The absolute stereochemistry of 6 was determined by X-ray analysis of 8 derived from 6.
