The stereochemical influence of a rotationally restricted amide group extends widely across substituted aromatic amides. Stereogenic centres can be created with high levels of (1, 5)- stereocontrol when electrophiles are added to the enolates of 2-ketonaphthamides or to lithiated 2-alkylnaphthamides. Sequential double lateral lithiation of 2, 6-dialkylbenzamides can lead to compounds containing (1, 5) related stereogenic centres by a process of two- ...
[Clayden, Jonathan; Pink, Jennifer H.; Westlund, Neil; Frampton, Christopher S. Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 1, 2002 , # 7 p. 901 - 917]