Tune it up! Tunable, chiral, monodentate oxaphospholane ligands (termed OxaPhos) are highly effective in the Pt-catalyzed title reaction, providing the 1,4-addition products in enantiomer ratios approaching 99:1 (see scheme). In the presence of enantiomerically pure cis-iBu-OxaPhos, a catalyst loading of only 0.02 mol % [Pt(dba)3] was sufficient for effective reaction. pin=pinacolato, dba=dibenzylideneacetone.
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Schuster et al. (2011) studied this question.