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In organic chemistry, carbonyl allylation describes methods for adding an
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anion to an aldehyde or ketone to produce a homoallylic alcohol. The carbonyl allylation was first reported in 1876 by Alexander Zaitsev and employed an allylzinc reagent.


Enantioselective versions

In 1978, Hoffmann reported the first asymmetric carbonyl allylation using a chiral allylmetal reagent, an allylborane derived from
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. Such methods utilize preformed allyl metal reagents. The approach is well developed using allyl boranesDenmark, S. E.; Almstead, N. G. In ''Modern Carbonyl Chemistry''; Otera, J., Ed.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2000; Chapter 10. ''(13)'' As illustrated by the Keck allylation, catalytic enantioselective additions of achiral allylmetal reagents to carbonyl compounds also are possible by organostannane additions. Allylic boronate and -borane reagents have also been developed for enantioselective addition to carbonyls—in this class of reactions, the allylic boron reagent confers stereochemical control ''(13)''


Catalysis

In 1991,
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disclosed the first catalytic enantioselective method for carbonyl allylation, which employed a chiral boron Lewis acid-catalyst in combination with allyltrimethylsilane. Numerous other catalytic enantioselective methods for carbonyl allylation followed. Catalytic variants of the Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction represent an alternative method for asymmetric carbonyl allylation, but stoichiometric metallic reductants are required. Whereas the aforementioned asymmetric carbonyl allylations rely on preformed allylmetal reagents, the Krische allylation exploits allyl acetate for enantioselective carbonyl allylation. Selected methods for asymmetric carbonyl allylation are summarized below.


Use in total synthesis

Carbonyl allylation has been employed in the synthesis of polyketide natural products and other oxygenated molecules with a contiguous array of stereocenters. For example, allylstannanation of a threose-derived aldehyde affords the macrolide antascomicin B, which structurally resembles FK506 and rapamycin, and is a potent binder of FKBP12. The Krische allylation was used to prepare the polyketide (+)-SCH 351448, a macrodiolide ionophore bearing 14 stereogenic centers.


Older primary literature

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