K. Koch et Jh. Smitrovich, HYDROXY-DIRECTED HYDROALUMINATIONS - A STEREOSELECTIVE APPROACH TO CYCLOALKANOLS FROM BETA-ARYL ENONES, Tetrahedron letters, 35(8), 1994, pp. 1137-1140
Various aryl substituted enones are reduced using lithium aluminum hyd
ride to afford sterioselectively trans substituted alkanols. Mechanist
ic studies demonstrate 1,2 addition followed by hydroxy-directed hydro
alumination of the conjugated styryl unit.