Abstract

A new chiral β-dialkylamino alcohol 1 prepared from d-mannitol has been used as a highly effective chiral catalyst for the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to unhindered aliphatic aldehydes to afford the product alcohols in up to 94% ee.

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