Asymmetric Synthesis of (α<i>R</i>)-Polyfluoroalkylated Prolinols Based on the Perfluoroalkyl-Induced Highly Stereoselective Reduction of Perfluoroalkyl <i>N</i>-Boc-pyrrolidyl Ketones Kazumasa Funabiki Akitsugu Shibata Hiroki Iwata Keisuke Hatano Yasuhiro Kubota Kenichi Komura Masahiro Ebihara Masaki Matsui 10.1021/jo8004952.s002 https://acs.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Asymmetric_Synthesis_of_i_R_i_Polyfluoroalkylated_Prolinols_Based_on_the_Perfluoroalkyl_Induced_Highly_Stereoselective_Reduction_of_Perfluoroalkyl_i_N_i_Boc_pyrrolidyl_Ketones/2932669 Reduction of the obtained chiral (<i>S</i>)-<i>tert</i>-butyl 2-(perfluoroalkanoyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxylate with sodium borohydride or lithium aluminum hydride proceeded smoothly to give the corresponding (<i>S</i>)-<i>tert</i>-butyl 2-((<i>R</i>)-perfluoro-1-hydroxyalkyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxylate in yields of 73−97% with excellent diastereoselectivities (up to >98% de), compared with the reduction of nonfluorinated (<i>S</i>)-<i>tert</i>-butyl 2-pentanoylpyrrolidine-1-carboxylate. 2008-06-20 00:00:00 Perfluoroalkyl N Asymmetric Synthesis Stereoselective Reduction sodium borohydride lithium aluminum hydride butyl tert