Practical approach for catalytic asymmetric allylation of aldehydes with a chiral bidentate titanium(IV) complex

A new, chiral bidentate Ti(IV) complex of type 1 was successfully designed and can be utilized for simultaneous coordination to aldehyde carbonyls, thereby allowing the precise enantioface discrimination of such carbonyls for a new catalytic, practical enantioselective allylation of aldehydes with allyltributyltin.