Oxygen, addition effect configuration

After 19 hours, no reaction between the zinc chelate 2 and benzaldehyde can be detected at 20 °C. However, 10 mol % of the zinc chelate effectively catalyzes theenantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aromatic aldehydes. The predominant formation of the S-configurated products, effected by this conformationally unambiguous catalyst, can be explained by a six-mem-bered cyclic transition state assembly17. The fact that the zinc chelate formed from ligand M is an equally effective catalyst clearly demonstrates that activation of the aldehyde moiety does not occur as a consequence of hydrogen bond formation between the ammonium proton of the pyrrolidine unit and the aldehydic oxygen. 

The circular dichroism (CD) spectra of optically active di-, tri-, and tetranuclear complexes of chromium(III) and cobalt(III) have been reported and used to establish the complexes absolute configurations (55 59, 111, 115, 116, 152-157). The changes in circular dichroism resulting from ion pairing have been studied for the tetranuclear hexol Co j(OH)2Co(NH,)4J, h+ and have been shown to be attributable to the vicinal effect of the chiral oxygen centers produced stereospecifically by the ion-pair formation (56). For a series of trinuclear cobalt (III) amine complexes, cis-Co(CN)2[(OH)2Co(N4)2 J3 +, it was shown that the main CD contributions due to the two chiral Co(OH)4(CN)2 and Co(N4)(OH)2 centers are additive (155). In the case of the related tetranuclear complex Co((OH)2Co(en)2J,< + this postulate of additivity of CD spectra proved unsatisfactory (57). 

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