Highly stereoselective Saucy-Marbet rearrangement using chiral ynamides. Synthesis of highly substituted chiral homoallenyl alcohols.

[reaction: see text] A highly stereoselective Saucy-Marbet rearrangement using chiral ynamides and propargyl alcohols is described here. This rearrangement can be catalyzed by para-nitrobenzenesulfonic acid leading to high diastereoselectivities for a range of different chiral propargyl alcohols and ynamides in a stereochemically intriguing matched, mismatched, or indifferent manner. This provides an excellent entry to highly substituted chiral homoallenyl alcohols.