Y. Kita et al., ENANTIOSELECTIVE PUMMERER-TYPE REARRANGEMENT BY REACTION OF O-SILYLATED KETENE ACETAL WITH ENANTIOPURE ALPHA-SUBSTITUTED SULFOXIDES, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (12), 1997, pp. 1763-1767
Chiral non-racemic alpha-substituted sulfoxides have-been allowed to-r
eact with O-silylated ketene acetals: in the presence of a catalytic a
mount of ZnI2 in THF to give chiral non-racemic alpha-siloxy sulfides
in >99% ee. This is the highest enantioselectivity reported to date fo
r the Pummerer reaction.