Peter Bowles, Jonathan Clayden, Madeleine Helliwell, Catherine McCarthy, Matthew Tomkinson and Neil Westlund
The products of the addition of ortholithiated N,N-dialkylnaphthamides to aldehydes are pairs of stable, diastereoisomeric atropisomers, formed with selectivities of up to 90∶10 in favour of the syn-atropisomer.