1. For review, see: Yamamoto, Y.; Asao, N. Chem. Rev. 1993, 93, 2207.
2. For examples of diastereoselective and enantioselective allylation of aldehydes with allylstannanes, see: (a) Yamamoto, Y.; Maruyama, K. Heterocycles 1982, 18, 357. (b) Hoffmann, R. W. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 1982, 21, 555. (c) Yamamoto, Y. Acc. Chem. Res. 1987, 20, 243. (d) Yamamoto, Y. Aldrichim. Acta 1987, 20, 45. (e) Yamamoto, Y.; Saito, K. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1989, 1676. (f) Yanagisawa, A.; Nakashima, H.; Ishiba, A.; Yamamoto, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 4723.
3. (a) Yanagisawa, A.; Inoue, H.; Morodome, M.; Yamamoto, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 10356. The reaction of ketones with allylstannanes has been reported in the following papers. Simple ketones such as acetophenone are not reacted under those reaction conditions, but ketones having rather uncommon structure are handled. (b) Ley, S. V.; Cox, L. R. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 1997, 3315. (c) Shibata, I.; Fukuoka, S.; Yoshimura, N.; Matsuda, H.; Baba, A. J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 3790. (d) Takeda, K.; Nakajima, A.; Yoshii, E. Synlett 1996, 753. (e) Takuwa, A.; Saito, H.; Nishigaichi, Y. Chem. Commun. 1999, 1963. (f) For the reaction of ketones through transmetallation of allyltin into allylindium, see: Miyai, T.; Inoue, K.; Yasuda, Y.; Baba, A. Synlett 1997, 699.
4. Aqueous reactions with a Lewis acid and an organometallic reagent. The scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate-catalyzed allylation reaction of carbonyl compounds with tetraallyltin
5. (a) Cokley, T. M.; Harvey, P. J.; Marshall, R. L.; McCluskey, A.; Young, D. J. J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 1961. (b) Yasuda, M.; Kitahara, N.; Fujibayashi, T.; Baba, A. Chem. Lett. 1998, 743.