Catalytic (asymmetric) methylene transfer to aldehydes
A Piccinini, SA Kavanagh, PB Connon…
文献索引：Kavanagh, Sarah A.; Piccinini, Alessandro; Fleming, Eimear M.; Connon, Stephen J. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2008 , vol. 6, # 8 p. 1339 - 1343
An investigation into the poor activity of sulfides as catalysts for sulfonium-ylide-mediated methylene transfer to aldehydes has indicated that ylide formation is the problematic catalytic cycle step. Alkylation with traditional electrophiles does not proceed with sufficient
