Enamines and metalated enamines are useful as nucleophiles in synthesis because of the resonance-donating property of the nitrogen atom, which is greater than that of oxygen atoms, thus they are more reactive than the enols and enolates.[1] Asymmetric reactions of enamines and metalated enamines have been reported. Yamada et al. first reported the chiral nonracemic enamines 1 which were derived from ketones and secondary amines [2 ...
