D. Cavalla et al., CHIRAL PHOSPHINE OXIDES AND CHIRAL ESTERS IN STEREOSELECTIVE INTERMOLECULAR ACYLATION REACTIONS OF PHOSPHINE OXIDES, Tetrahedron letters, 37(41), 1996, pp. 7465-7468
Single diastereomers of beta-keto phosphine oxides have been generated
from intermolecular acylation of phosphine oxides using either chiral
esters or chiral phoshine oxides. In most cases, reduction of the ket
one products was not affected by the presence of extra chiral centres.
Some mechanistic points of interest in the acylation reactions are di
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