@article{pittir20483, volume = {3}, number = {10}, month = {May}, author = {P Wipf and S Ribe}, title = {Water-Accelerated Tandem Claisen Rearrangement-Catalytic Asymmetric Carboalumination}, journal = {Organic Letters}, pages = {1503 -- 1505}, year = {2001}, url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/20483/}, abstract = {matrix presented The addition of stoichiometric quantities of water accelerates both the trimethylaluminum-mediated aromatic Claisen reaction and the chiral zirconocene-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of terminal alkenes. The two reactions occur in a tandem sequence resulting in the selective formation of two new C-C and one C-O bond after oxidative quench of the intermediate trialkylalane.} }