Acid-catalyzed aldol-Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley-etherification reactions—access to defined configured quaternary stereogenic centers
                                
                                    
                                        作者:Andrea Seifert、Kerstin Rohr、Rainer Mahrwald                                    
                                    
                                        DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2011.11.069
                                    
                                    
                                        日期:2012.1
                                    
                                    A novel asymmetric aldol-reduction-etherification process of aliphatic enolizable aldehydes is described. The intermediately formed aldol adducts-beta-hydroxyaldehydes-were reduced and transformed into the corresponding 1,3-diol ethers by external secondary alcohols at the same time. Thus, with the help of chiral secondary alcohols an access to optically active 1,3-diol ether is given. Furthermore, asymmetric cross-aldol-Meerwein-Ponndorf reactions of enolizable aldehydes can also be realized under these reaction conditions. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.