DKR of Configurationally Labile Anions

The use of organometallic bases to achieve asymmetric deprotonation in the presence of chiral complexing agents, such as (-)-sparteine, has been the focus 

The pre-eminence of chiral phosphines as controller ligands for a wide range of asymmetric processes has become firmly established. In 1998, Livinghouse and colleagues showed that a variety of P-chiral phosphine boranes could be directly prepared from a racemic 2-phosphine-borane precursor with an 

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