B. Wang et al., Highly efficient enantioselective synthesis of optically active dihydropyrones by chiral titanium(iv) (5,5 ',6,6 ',7,7 ',8,8 '-octahydro-1,1 '-bi-2-naphthol) complexes, CHEM COMMUN, (17), 2000, pp. 1605-1606
The asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of Danishefsky's diene and an al
dehyde catalyzed by 20 mol% chiral H-8-BINOL-Ti(iv) affords the correspondi
ng 2-substitutent-2,3-dihydro-4H-pyran-4-one with ees of up to 99% under mi
ld reaction conditions.