Remote induction of stereoselective 1,2-addition of aryl Grignard reagents to β-sulfinyl enones

Optically active tert-allylic alcohols constitute important and often challenging targets in organic synthesis. In this work, we employed a β-sulfinyl moiety as a remote chiral auxiliary to effect asymmetric 1,2-addition of aryl Grignard reagents to enones to form a variety of optically active tert-allylic alcohols. The absolute configuration of a representative alcohol product was determined by X-ray crystallography.