A cationic iridium complex, prepared via the hydrogenation of [Ir(cod)2]PF6–2PPr3 is found to be an excellent catalyst for the stereoselective isomerization of primary allyl silyl ethers to (E)-enol ethers and secondary allyl ethers to (Z)-enol ethers.
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Ohmura et al. (1998) studied this question.