Yh. Kim et al., STEREOCONTROLLED CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC REDUCTION OF KETONES WITH OXAZABOROLIDINES DERIVED FROM NEW CHIRAL AMINO-ALCOHOLS, Journal of organic chemistry, 58(17), 1993, pp. 4511-4512
The highly stereocontrolled enantioselective reduction of ketones in t
he presence of catalytic amounts of new chiral (S)-beta-amino alcohols
1 and 2 with borane in THF at -78-degrees-C proceeds in high chemical
and optical yields; secondary alcohols with the R-configuration are o
btained in the presence of 1b, but secondary alcohols with the S-confi
guration are obtained in the presence of 2a.