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Bronsted acid catalyzed asymmetric reduction of ketones and acyl silanes using chiral anti -pentane-2,4-diol
Matsuo, Jun-Ichi,Hattori, Yu,Ishibashi, Hiroyuki
supporting information; experimental part, p. 2294 - 2297 (2010/08/05)
Ketones and acyl silanes were reduced to the corresponding alcohols by a simple procedure employing anti-1,3-diol and a catalytic amount (5 mol %) of 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonic acid in benzene at reflux. Asymmetric induction reached up to >99% ee when a chiral pentane-2,4-diol of 97% ee was used.
