Benzaldehyde → HCID 686705, compound

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Further, the present inventors has reported in Tetrahedron Letters (1993) Vol. 34, p. 2657 that the reaction between benzaldehyde and nitromethane under a catalyst of lanthanum-lithium-(R)-binaphthol complex at −50° C. gives (S)-1-phenyl-2 nitro ethanol in a yield of 84% (40% e.e.), and when carried out under a catalyst of samarium-lithium-(R)-binaphthol complex at −40° C., the reaction gives the same compound in a yield of 90% (62% e.e.) ((R) or (S) in the name of leach compound represents R or S isomer, respectively, showing the compound's configuration).

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