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• 917-54-4 methyllithium 
• 167282-09-9 (-)-((4R,5R)-5-benzoyl-2,2-dimethyl-[1,3]dioxolan-4-yl)-phenyl-methanone 
• 88244-50-2 3,4-O-isopropylidene-(3R,4R)-3,4-dihydroxyhexane-2,5-dione 
• 177283-77-1 (4R,5R)-N,N'-dimethoxy-N,N',2,2-tetramethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-dicarboxamide 

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• 912646-25-4 (2R,3R,4R,5R)-2,5-dimethoxy-2,5-diphenylhexane-3,4-diol 
• 24190-08-7 (R)-(-)-2-methoxy-2-phenylpropionic acid 
• 91899-79-5 (S)-2-methoxy-2-phenylpropanal 
• 912646-24-3 (4R,5R)-4,5-bis((R)-1-methoxy-1-phenylethyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Asymmetric synthesis of both enantiomers of α-methyl-α-methoxyphenylacetic acid from l-(+)-tartaric acid: formal enantioselective synthesis of insect pheromone (-)-frontalin

Both antipodes of α-methyl-α-methoxyarylacetic acid derivatives were prepared from a common chiralpool precursor l-(+)-tartaric acid. The key step involves the addition of Grignard reagents to 1,4-diketones derived from tartaric acid. The utility of this

Nucleophilic addition reactions of 1,4-diketones derived from tartaric acid: Synthesis of TADDOL analogues

A systematic investigation of the reduction and Grignard reagents addition to 1,4-diketones derived from tartaric acid was carried out. It was found that the reduction proceeded with high selectivity using K-Selectride as the reducing agent; while Grignar

Preparation and Structural Analysis of Several New α,α,α',α'-Tetraaryl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimethanols (TADDOL's) and TADDOL Analogs, Their Evaluation as Titanium Ligands in the Enantioselective Addition of Methyltitanium and Diethylzinc Reagents to Benzaldehyde, and Refinement of ...

Preparation and screening of twenty new ligands, all analogs of α,α,α',α'-tetraaryl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimethanol (TADDOL), for the Ti-catalyzed asymmetric addition of methyltri(isopropoxy)titanium and diethylzinc to benzaldehyde are described.These ligands have the dioxolane ring of the TADDOL's replaced by cyclobutane, cyclopentane, cyclohexene, cyclohexane, bicycloheptene and -heptane and bicyclooctene and -octane moieties; several have H-atoms or alkyl groups in place of the aryl groups, and nine of them have C2 symmetry.X-Ray crystallography and molecular mechanics are used to analyze the structure of the ligands, and two structural features appear to correlate with selectivity: i) the torsion angle for the chelating O-atom and the ortho-C-atom of the axial Ph group (a small, ca. 19 deg, angle is optimum, Fig. 8) and ii) the "degree of perpendicularity" of the axial Ph group (Fig. 9).Competition experiments indicate that TADDOL 1a catalyzes both the methyltitanium and diethylzinc additions >/= 50 times faster than the related dioxolane analogs 12a, 12c, and 12e (Scheme 7), indicating that both axial and equatorial aryl groups (see Footnote 6) are necessary for ligand-accelerated catalysis of these reactions.A refined mechanistic hypotesis is presented (Fig. 10) to explain the selectivities observed for these new ligands.Our analysis suggests that a combination of structural features appear necessary for good catalytic efficiency and high selectivity.These features, especially the rather subtle conformational effects, appear to be optimized (among the ligands tested) in the TADDOL's.