a Department of Chemistry, Fukuoka University of Education, Akama, Munakata, Fukuoka 811-4192, Japan b Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Graduate School, Kyushu University 33, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
Abstract:
Newly designed phosphino-phenol 1c was found to be an efficient chiral auxiliary for copper-mediated asymmetric conjugate addition of diethylzinc to acyclic enones. High enantioselectivity up to >99% ee was achieved in the reaction of acyclic α,β-enones.