Abstract The combination of an air-stable iridium catalyst and the dipolar aprotic solvent dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) allowed, for the first time, the systematic exploitation of highly polar, functionalized amines in asymmetric allylic substitutions: low molecular weight, sp 3- rich chiral building blocks were obtained with physicochemical properties that will be valuable in the synthesis of lead-like small molecules.
[Crimmins, Michael T.; Al-awar, Rima S.; Vallin, Isabelle M.; Hollis Jr., W. Gary; O'Mahony, Rosemary; Lever, John G.; Bankaitis-Davis, Danute M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1996 , vol. 118, # 32 p. 7513 - 7528]