New ferrocenyloxazoline for the preparation of ferrocenes with planar chirality

New ferrocenyloxazolines with two stereogenic centers were prepared with ex cellent yields starting from the (1S, 2S)-(+)-2-amino-3-phenyl-1, 3-propane diol. They can then be used for the preparation of ferrocenes with planar c hirality with very high diastereoselectivities (>99:1%) by a lithiation /el ectrophile-trapping sequence. The syntheses of chiral (phosphinoferrocenyl) oxazoline and (phenylthioferrocenyl)oxazoline and their use as ligands in c onjunction with bis[(pi-allyl)palladium chloride] in the enantioselective a llylic alkylation of rac-1,3-diphenylprop-2-enyl acetate was investigated.