Herein we report the first example of a catalytic enantioselective Nozaki-H
iyama-Kishi reaction performed with a catalytic amount of chiral chromium c
omplex. A large variety of non-stereogenic and stereogenic reactive halides
can be added to aldehydes to afford the corresponding alcohols with excell
ent stereoselectivity using a catalytic amount of chiral chromium complex (
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