S. Bellemin-laponnaz et al., The kinetic resolution of allylic alcohols by a non-enzymatic acylation catalyst; application to natural product synthesis, CHEM COMMUN, (12), 2000, pp. 1009-1010
A planar-chiral DMAP derivative is shown to serve as an effective catalyst
for the kinetic resolution of allylic alcohols; to illustrate its practical
utility, the catalyst is applied to the resolution of two alcohols that ha
ve been employed as intermediates in recent natural product total syntheses
.