Dithioacetals as an entry to titanium-alkylidene chemistry: A new and efficient carbonyl olefination.

B. Breit, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 1998, 37, 453.

Key Words:
alkylidene complexes/olefinations/synthetic methods/titanium/STEREOSELECTIVE PREPARATION/METHYLENATION/CONVERSION/REAGENT/REDUCTION/ETHERS/DERIVATIVES/ALDEHYDES/ESTERS



Controlling stereoselectivity with the aid of a reagent-directing group: Hydroformylation, cuprate addition, and domino reaction sequences.

B. Breit, Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 6, 1519.

Key Words:
asymmetric synthesis/catalysis/copper reagents/domino reactions/hydroformylations/rhodium/RHODIUM-CATALYZED HYDROFORMYLATION/ONE-POT SYNTHESIS/HIGHLY ENANTIOSELECTIVE HYDROFORMYLATION/DIASTEREOSELECTIVE HYDROFORMYLATION/ASYMMETRIC HYDROFORMYLATION/METHALLYLIC ALCOHOLS/ORGANIC-SYNTHESIS/HOMOMETHALLYLIC ALCOHOLS/ALLYLIC ALCOHOLS/BUILDING-BLOCK



Bis(alkoxy)titanacyclopropanes and -propenes (Kulinkovich reagents): Versatile reagents for carbon-carbon bond formation.

B. Breit, J. Prakt. Chem., 2000, 342, 211.

Key Words:
review titanacyclopropane titanacyclopropene prepn synthon



Recent advances on chemo-, regio- and stereoselective hydroformylation.

B. Breit, W. Seiche, Synthesis, 2001, 1.

Key Words:
catalysis; hydroformylations; chemoselectivity; regioselectivity; stereoselectivity; aldehydes; RHODIUM-CATALYZED HYDROFORMYLATION; DIRECTED DIASTEREOSELECTIVE HYDROFORMYLATION; HIGHLY ENANTIOSELECTIVE HYDROFORMYLATION; SYNTHETIC CARBAPENEM ANTIBIOTICS; LOW-PRESSURE HYDROFORMYLATION; CHIRAL PLATINUM CATALYSTS; PI-ACCEPTOR LIGANDS; ASYMMETRIC HYDROFORMYLATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; DIPHOSPHITE LIGANDS