Nitrones reaction with enol silanes

The TiCU-mediated reaction of enol silanes with imines was first introduced by Ojima and coworkers in 1977. The reaction was then extended to several similar substrates, i.e. nitrones, ot-methoxycarba-mates, aminals, 4-acetoxyazetidin-2-one, 40 anj to different Lewis acids, i.e. SnCU, TiCU-(0PH)2, catalytic ZnX2, catalytic TMSOTf, ° to give good yields of the addition products with low levels ( 80 20) or a complete lack of simple stereoselection. Moderate to good anti selectivities were reported in the addition of silyl ketene acetals to imines under particular reaction conditions (equation 9) significant results are summarized in Table 4. 

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