Highly Catalytic Enantioselective Addition of Diethyl Zinc to Aldehydes and Chalcone in the Presence of Chiral Ligands

Catalytic asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation is one of the most important reactions and have attracted much attention to develop more efficient enantioselective C-C formation methods in organic synthesis. In this field, asymmetric addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes[1] and conjugate addition to enones[2] have drawn special interests and have been greatly developed. Regardless of it, much spaces in these areas still exist, so it needs more extensive and intensive researches for the purpose of as follows: (1) attaching ligands to a polymer for the easy separation of the catalysts so as to be able to allow very efficient recovery and reuse of the catalysts, and the possibility of carrying out the desired transfomation in continuous mode in a flow reactor, etc., (2) searching for novel chiral catalysts with such features as more suitable for more extensive substrates varieties, and more convenient and economical as well as possessing applicable prospect, and so on. Here we report some works in these areas done in our laboratory.