Allylic alcohols optically pure, formation

Since electron-donating substituents at the phosphorus atom favor addition reactions over olefination reactions, addition of 9 to aldehydes leads to the exclusive formation of the silyl-pro-tected allylic alcohols 10. No reaction products arising from Wittig alkenylation could be detected. The ylides (R,S)-9 and (S.S)-9 and their enantiomers were prepared from the corresponding optically pure l-[2-(diphenylphosphino)ferrocenyl]-A,A -dimethylethanamine diastereomers 7 via the phosphonium salts 8. 

The Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation of the same 3-(2-phenylcydopropyl)prop-2-enol (110) in its racemic form afforded an inseparable mixture of and a t/-bicyclopropanes 111 in a 1.3 1 ratio. Therefore, the Charette protocol (p 286) was used first to prepare the required allylic alcohol in its optically pure form and the cyclopropanation was carried out in the presence of the tartrate derived dioxaborolane 93. By using (+)- and (— )-tartrate derived dioxaborolane 93, both the syn- and antf-bicyclopropyls 111 were obtained. The diastereoselectivities observed in their formation were consistently greater than 12 1. ... 

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