10.1021/ol015816z.s001 Peter Wipf Peter Wipf Seth Ribe Seth Ribe Water-Accelerated Tandem Claisen Rearrangement−Catalytic Asymmetric Carboalumination American Chemical Society 2001 carboalumination trialkylalane oxidative terminal alkenes Asymmetric Tandem bond tandem sequence formation Rearrangement stoichiometric quantities chiral Carboalumination Claisen reaction quantity 2001-04-14 00:00:00 Journal contribution https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Water-Accelerated_Tandem_Claisen_Rearrangement_Catalytic_Asymmetric_Carboalumination/3739026 The addition of stoichiometric quantities of water accelerates both the trimethylaluminum-mediated aromatic Claisen reaction and the chiral zirconocene-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of terminal alkenes. The two reactions occur in a tandem sequence resulting in the selective formation of two new C−C and one C−O bond after oxidative quench of the intermediate trialkylalane.