Trimethylgermanium enolates, prepared in situ from lithium enolates and trimethylgermanium halides, underwent a rapid aldol condensation with benzaldehyde to give the erythro-aldol predominantly, while the same enolates produced the threo-aldol preferentially if the coexisting lithium halides were removed before condensation.
Y. Yamamoto and J. Yamada, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1988, 802 DOI: 10.1039/C39880000802
To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.
If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.
Please wait while we load your content...