Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo 113‐0033 (Japan), Fax: (+81)?3‐5684‐5206 http://www.f.u‐tokyo.ac.jp/~kanai/e_index.html
Abstract:
Better the second time around : The title compounds were synthesized by using a one‐pot double methylene transfer catalyzed by a heterobimetallic La/Li complex. Chiral amplification in the second step was the key to obtaining oxetanes in high enantiomeric excess (see scheme).