Anhydrous lithium bromide has been successfully used as an additive instead of hexamethylphosphoric triamide in the O-trimethylsilylation of enolates generated by copper halide-catalyzed reaction of Grignard reagents with a number of α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Some conjugate additions also proceed satisfactorily in the absence of lithium bromide.
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