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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2007 May 27;107(6):2503–2545. doi: 10.1021/cr0509556

Table 15.

Solvent-free asymmetric HDA reaction of aldehyde with Danishefsky's diene as illustrated in Eq 8.

aldehydes (L5)2Ti
(L5)(L6)Ti
loading (%) time (h) yield (%) ee (%) loading (%) time (h) yield (%) ee (%)
benzaldehyde 0.05 24 >99 99.3 0.05 24  82 99.4
p-anisaldehyde 0.05 48 >99 90.8 0.05 48 >99 98.0
m-anisaldehyde 0.05 48  81 96.6 0.05 48  82.6 99.8
o-anisaldehyde 0.05 48  95 75.1 0.05 48 >99 95.1
3-phenylpropionaldehyde 0.05 96 >99 97.9 0.05 96 >99 98.3
trans-cinnamaldehyde 0.1 96  82 98.4 0.05 96  56.6 96.6
furfural 0.05 48 >99 99.2 0.05 48 >99 99.7
furfural 0.01 96  37 94.7 0.01 96 >99 97.7
furfural - -  - - 0.005 144  63 96.2
m-tolualdehyde 0.1 48  95 98.5 0.05 48  92 99.5
1-naphthaldehyde 0.05 48  55 85.6 0.05 48  65 98.5
p-cyanobenzaldehyde 0.1 48 >99 92.9 0.05 48  98.4 97.9
m-bromobenzaldehyde 0.1 48 >99 97.4 0.05 48  98.3 97.6
p-bromobenzaldehyde 0.05 48 >99 98.0 0.05 48 >99 98.4
p-chlorobenzaldehyde 0.05 48 >99 91.2 0.05 48 >99 99.1
p-nitrobenzaldehyde 0.05 48 >99 97.3 0.05 24 >99 99.4