M. Dieguez et al., Diphosphites as a promising new class of ligands in Pd-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation, CHEM COMMUN, (12), 2001, pp. 1132-1133
A series of diphosphite ligands, derived from readily available D-(+)-gluco
se, have been used for the first time in the palladium-catalysed allylic al
kylation reaction with high enantioselectivity (ee up to 95%) and activity
in standard conditions.