Development of a Highly α-Regioselective Metal-Mediated Allylation Reaction in Aqueous Media: New Mechanistic Proposal for the Origin of α-Homoallylic Alcohols
This paper described a general method to obtain α-adduct homoallylic alcohols using indium, zinc, and tin in water. A new mechanism was proposed to account for the formation of these synthetically difficult-to-obtain molecules. Generally, this method can be performed with a wide range of aldehydes and allylic halides with just 6 equiv of water added, giving the α-adduct in high selectivities. To account