| Abstract: | (2-Butenyl)-, (4-methyl-2-pentenyl)-, and (2-heptenyl)triphenoxytitanium ( 2a – c ) add to dialkyl, alkyl aryl-, and alkinyl aryl ketones to give high yields of tertiary homoallylic alcohols ( 5 – 12 ), which are diastereomerically enriched up to 98%. Configurational assignment by degradation of two of the products to olefins 15 and 18 - through β-hydroxy acids 13 and 16 and β-lactones 14 and 17 - leads to the proposal of a general mechanism and of a specification of the relative topicity lk of the process (Scheme 5). The allylic Ti-compounds 2 can serve as d2-reagents (see the d2-synthon II and the aldol-type structures 1 ). |
