Samarium diiodide is an efficient catalyst precursor which allows the formation of condensation products between various carbonyl compounds and ketene silyl acetals or enoxysilanes. With α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, 1, 2-or 1, 4-additions are observed according to the structure of the substrate. α, β-Unsaturated ketones yield to enoxysilanes by selective Michael additions. Aldol poducts are isolated as silyl ethers. ...
[Marsi, Marianne; Brinkman, Kerry C.; Lisensky, Carol A.; Vaughn, George D.; Gladysz, J. A. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 18 p. 3396 - 3401]