作者:Hyun J. Kim、W.Roy Jackson                                    
                                    
                                        DOI:10.1016/0957-4166(94)80124-x
                                    
                                    
                                        日期:1994.8
                                    
                                    A detailed study of the dipeptide catalysed enantioselective hydrocyanation of a series of O-substituted 4-hydroxybenzaldehydes has shown that adverse steric effects can occur leading to low enantiomeric excess (e.e.) values when the substituent is long and flexible. Similar hydrocyanation of several derivatives of 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehydes have been shown to give very variable values of e.e. Hydrocyanation of 3,5-dimethoxy and 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzaldehyde consistently gave low values of e.e.