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Keywords:

  • Asymmetric catalysis;
  • Oxazolines;
  • Proline;
  • Ligands;
  • Allylation

Abstract

Sixteen members of a new ligand class incorporating an oxazoline ring linked by an amide bond to a chiral protected proline unit were prepared in a high-yielding four-step synthesis from readily available chiral amino alcohols and N-protected proline. The ligands were applied in the enantioselective Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi allylation of benzaldehyde and gave enantioselectivities of up to 57 %. Diastereomeric ligand pairs were prepared to determine the role of each chiral centre in enantioselection.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2007)