The readily accessible enantiopure hydrobenzoin forms the backbone of the new bidentate ligand BIPHOP-F that is shown here to provide the chiral environment for a highly enantioselective Fe–Lewis acid catalysed Diels–Alder reaction between α,β-enals and dienes.
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