STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION OF A DIMETHYLALUMINUM DERIVATIVE OF ETHYL RAC-LACTATE IN THE SOLID-STATE AND SOLUTION - FIRST EVIDENCE FOR STEREOSELECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF A DIALKYLALUMINUM O,O'-CHELATE COMPLEX
J. Lewinski et al., STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION OF A DIMETHYLALUMINUM DERIVATIVE OF ETHYL RAC-LACTATE IN THE SOLID-STATE AND SOLUTION - FIRST EVIDENCE FOR STEREOSELECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF A DIALKYLALUMINUM O,O'-CHELATE COMPLEX, Chemical communications, (16), 1997, pp. 1519-1520
The reaction of AlMe3 with an equimolar amount of ethyl rac-lactate (H
elac) affords rac-[Me2Al{(S)-elac}](2); the X-ray structure shows tha
t the adduct is formed in a highly stereoselective manner and variable
-temperature H-1 NMR spectra indicates that the five-coordinated compl
ex is nonrigid in solution.