In the second half of the twentieth century much effort was invested in the preparation of highly reactive polar organometallic reagents. The high reactivity of these reagents precluded the presence of many functional groups and often good chemoselectivities and stereoselectivities could only by achieved by transmetalation reactions. The synthesis of increasingly complex target molecules and the desire to avoid tedious protection–deprotection steps has led inevitably to the use of functionalized organometallic reagents in retrosynthesis. In the last fifteen years, the generation of organic derivatives of numerous metals and metalloids (Li, Mg, B, Zn, Sn) was investigated. In this review the most important preparations and applications of organometallic reagents in organic synthesis will be covered, with particular emphasis on organozinc reagents.
The development of new ligands for asymmetric catalysis is an highly active field of research. [1] Although many chiral ligands have been prepared, only a few, such as binaphthyl-, [2] salen-, [3] pybox-, [4] and DuPHOS-type [5] ligands have found broad applications in various asymmetric reactions. The ferrocenyl unit has proven to allow excellent spatial recognition, [6] and we recently reported new ferrocenyl diphosphanes of type 1 (taniaphos), [7] which gave excellent results in COMMUNICATIONS 4708
In the second half of the twentieth century much effort was invested in the preparation of highly reactive polar organometallic reagents. The high reactivity of these reagents precluded the presence of many functional groups and often good chemoselectivities and stereoselectivities could only by achieved by transmetalation reactions. The synthesis of increasingly complex target molecules and the desire to avoid tedious protection-deprotection steps has led inevitably to the use of functionalized organometallic reagents in retrosynthesis. In the last fifteen years, the generation of organic derivatives of numerous metals and metalloids (Li, Mg, B, Zn, Sn) was investigated. In this review the most important preparations and applications of organometallic reagents in organic synthesis will be covered, with particular emphasis on organozinc reagents.
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