“…Following materials were commercially obtained: 2,4-pentanedione, 1,3-diphenyl-1,3-propanedione, tert -butanol, pyridine, N -MeIm, DMAP, 2-picoline, CHO, COO (from TCI); Me 3 Al, Et 4 NOAc (from Aldrich). Following materials were synthesized according to the reported literatures: salen-type Schiff bases [(1 R ,2 R )- N , N ′-bissalicylidene-1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-diamine ( 1a H 2 ), (1 R ,2 R )- N , N ′-bis(3-phenylsalicylidene)-1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-diamine ( 1b H 2 ), (1 R ,2 R )- N , N ′-bis(3,5-di- tert -butylsalicylidene)-1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-diamine ( 1c H 2 ), (1 R ,2 R )- N , N ′-bissalicylidene-1,2-cyclohexanediamine ( 1d H 2 ), (1 R ,2 R )- N , N ′-bis(3-phenylsalicylidene)-1,2-cyclohexanediamine ( 1e H 2 ), and (1 R ,2 R )- N , N ′-bis(3,5-di- tert -butylsalicylidene)-1,2-cyclohexanediamine ( 1f H 2 )], amino alcohols [( S )-2-amino-1-propanol, ( S )-2-amino-3-methyl-1-butanol, ( S )-2-amino-4-methyl-1-pentanol, (2 S ,3 S )-2-amino-3-methyl-1-pentanol, ( S )-2-amino-3-phenyl-1-propanol, ( S )-2-amino-2-phenylethanol, and ( R )-2-amino-2-phenylethanol], β-ketoimines [4-(2-hydroxyethylimino)pent-2-en-2-ol ( 2a H 2 ) and 4-(( S )-1-hydroxypropan-2-ylimino)pent-2-en-2-ol ( 2b H 2 )], ( S )-diphenyl(pyrrolidine-2-yl)methanol ( 3 H), aluminum complexes [ 1c AlMe, 1d AlMe, 1f AlMe, [ 2a AlMe] 2 , 3 2 AlMe, and 4 AlMe], bis- N -MeIm, bis- N -MeBzIm, MAD, and CPO …”