title: Toward asymmetric aldol-Tishchenko reactions with enolizable aldehydes: access to defined configured stereotriads, tetrads, and stereopentads.
abstract: Asymmetric aldol-Tishchenko reactions of enolizable aldehydes and ketones in the presence of chiral BINOLTi(OtBu)(2)/cinchona alkaloids complexes are described. Different configurative outcomes of these reactions depend on an equilibration through a retro aldol/aldol sequence and can be influenced by the configurative architecture of substrates. The results are explained by means of transition state models and rate constants. These considerations offer a fine-tuning of diastereoselectivity in aldol-Tishchenko reactions. Extensions of this research give access to defined configured stereotriads, stereotetrads, and stereopentads.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität, Brook-Taylor Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rohr
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Herre
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mahrwald
mesh_terms: D000447:Aldehydes / Q000737:chemistry*; D007659:Ketones / Q000737:chemistry; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D007659:Ketones; C116609:3-hydroxybutanal