ChemInform Abstract: Enantioselective Deprotonation of the meso-Forms of 2,6- and 3,5-Dimethylcyclohexanones

Kinetic deprotonation of meso-dimethylcyclohexanones by chiral lithium amides in the presence of excess trimethylsilyl chloride afforded the corresponding silyl enol ethers in good yields and in reasonably high enantiomeric excesses