Allylation of ketones made easy: commercially available reagents can be used at room temperature to transform ketones into homoallylic alcohols with good to excellent enantioselectivities [Eq. (1)]. This process belongs to a rare class of reactions that catalytically form quaternary stereogenic centers.
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Waltz et al. (2002) studied this question.