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Asymmetric addition of Davies's chiral lithium amide to prochiral vinyl phosphine oxides

B Bartels, CG Martín, A Nelson, MG Russell, S Warren

Index: Bartels, Bjoern; Martin, Concepcion Gonzalez; Nelson, Adam; Russell, Matthew G.; Warren, Stuart Tetrahedron Letters, 1998 , vol. 39, # 12 p. 1637 - 1640

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Abstract

Lithium N-benzyl-α-methylbenzylamide adds to prochiral vinyl phosphine oxides in the presence of trimethylsilyl chloride to provide, after protodesilylation, β-amino phosphine oxides as single diastereoisomers. A mechanism which explains the rôle of trimethylsilyl chloride is proposed.