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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 30.

Diethylzinc additions to 3'-methylacetophenone under solvent-free and highly concentrated reaction conditions.

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entry solvent L* (mol %) time (h) yield (%) ee (%)
1 tol/hex 2 24 78 >99
2 none 1 4 79 99
3 2 equiv tola 1 7 78 99
4 none 0.5 20 80 98
5 none 0.25 21 62 97
6 none 0.1 24 58 96
a

Two equiv toluene relative to ketone substrate.