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IIII. .22 IINTRODUCTIION TO HOMOALLYLIIC ALCOHOLSS: : ALLYLATIION OFF<br />

CARBONYLSS<br />

Homoallylic alcohols are important building blocks in organic syntheses, since the<br />

alkene functionality can be readily transformed into a wide variety of functional groups<br />

such as aldehydes (via ozonolysis), δ-lactones, epoxides, and other olefinic compounds<br />

(via cross-metathesis). 55 Furthermore, they are widely distributed in many biological active<br />

molecules such as macrolides, polyhydroxylated natural products, polyether antibiotics and<br />

alkaloids. 56 Various methods e.g. Alder-ene reaction, 57a Hosomi-Sakurai Reaction, 57b<br />

Nozaki-Hiyama coupling reaction 57c etc. have been developed for the diastereoselective<br />

synthesis of homoallylic alcohols. However, the metal-mediated allylation of aldehydes is<br />

the most popular for its efficiency and ease of operation.<br />

The reaction generates a stereogenic carbinol centre with unsubstituted allyl<br />

halides. More importantly, reactions with the γ-substituted allyl halides (R-CH=CHCH 2 X,<br />

R = Aryl, alkyl; X = Cl, Br) generates two stereogenic centres due to the involvement of<br />

allylic rearrangement in the allylic-metal reagents (Scheme II.2.1). The reaction is highly<br />

efficient in terms of atom economy, as all the carbons form the scaffold of the desired<br />

molecules.<br />

O<br />

R 1 R 2<br />

OH<br />

solvent<br />

+ R 3 X + M<br />

R 1<br />

conditions<br />

R 2 R 3<br />

R 1 /R 2 = H/alkyl, R 3 = H (allyl halide), Me (crotyl halide), Ph (cinnamyl halide)<br />

M = metal (Zn, Sn, In, Ga etc.)<br />

Scheme II.2.1<br />

31

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