Silyl-lithium reagents mixed with copper(I) salts react with enones, including esters and aldehydes, to give β-silyl carbonyl compounds in good yield. The β-silylketones can be used in synthesis without risk to the silyl group and the enone group can be restored by bromination-desilylbromination with copper(II) bromide. The principle is illustrated with syntheses of carvone and dihydrojasmone.
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Ager et al. (1981) studied this question.