Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Two possible enolate anions of trimethylsilylmethyl ketones have been prepared regioselectively by the appropriate choice of base. The one directed to the silylmethyl site behaves as a highly reactive and (E)-selective condensation reagent to aldehydes.
[Pearlman, B. A.; McNamara, J. M.; Hasan, I.; Hatakeyama, S.; Sekizaki, H.; Kishi, Y. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981 , vol. 103, # 14 p. 4248 - 4251]