A. Skibniewski et al., Application of the Siegrist condensation to the synthesis of conjugated enantiopure bis(styryl)ferrocenes, SYNTHESIS-S, (3), 1999, pp. 459-462
Enantiopure polyunsaturated bis(ferrocenyl)aldehydes 7a-c were prepared fro
m the chiral ferrocenylimine 2b. The key reaction is a Siegrist condensatio
n between 2b and bis-methylarenes 4a-c. Sequential introduction of two diff
erent styryl groups also gave the tris-unsaturated ferrocenecarboxaldehyde
9.