Sam Donnelly, E. Thomas, M. Fielding
Aug 30, 2004
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
Treatment of the 5-benzyloxy-4-methylpent-2-enyl bromide 6 with the low valent bismuth species formed by reduction of bismuth(III) iodide with zinc powder generates an intermediate, which reacts with aldehydes with useful levels of 1,5-stereocontrol in favour of the 1,5-anti-(E)-isomers 4. These products were used to prepared aliphatic compounds with 1,5-syn-related methyl groups.