Th. Yan et al., AN UNUSUAL ENANTIOSELECTIVE ALDOL-TYPE REACTION OF ACETATE BORYL ENOLATE DERIVED FROM CHIRAL THIOIMIDE, Journal of organic chemistry, 59(26), 1994, pp. 8187-8191
The camphor-derived N-acetyloxazolidinethione has been used to effect
enantioselective aldol type reactions of the derived 9-BBN enolate wit
h a variety of aldehydes. Mechanistically, the observed facial selecti
vity is best explained by a boatlike transition structure.