T. Zair et al., STEREOCHEMISTRY OF ADDITION OF ALLYLIC GRIGNARD-REAGENTS TO ALPHA,BETA-ETHYLENIC KETONES, Journal of organic chemistry, 58(10), 1993, pp. 2686-2693
The stereochemistry of the addition of allylic Grignard reagents, (mai
nly crotylmagnesium chloride) to various conjugated enones has been in
vestigated and a compact transition state is postulated. For s-cis-eno
nes bearing no bulky substituents, a boat transition state, involving
a trans-crotylmagnesium chloride, occurs leading to erythro-1,5-hexadi
en-3-ols as the major or only product.