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Abstract:
CC bond formation with organotitanium compounds has many advantages. Thus aldehydes react considerably faster than ketones: for instance, PhTi(O-iPr)3 gives > 90% of (1), and 4-tert-butylcyclohexanone forms a 18:82 mixture of equatorial and axial alcohol (2) with Me2TiCl2.