Takeda Takeshi, Ando Maiko, Sugita Takenori, Tsubouchi Akira
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan.
Org Lett. 2007 Jul 19;9(15):2875-8. doi: 10.1021/ol071077w. Epub 2007 Jun 20.
Titanocene alkylidene complexes, generated by desulfurizative titanation of thioacetals with Cp2Ti[P(OEt)3]2, reacted with alkynyl methyl sulfones to produce organotitanium species, which gave tert-homopropargyl alcohols with high diastereoselectivity on treatment with aromatic and alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones.