“…Simple treatment of alkoxyallyl lithium with Ipc 2 BOMe and BF 3 ·Et 2 O provides [(Z)-γ-alkoxyallyl]diisopinocampheylborane (Table 1, entry 3) that gives rise to syn-diols (Scheme 5, FG = MeO, MEMO). In natural product synthesis, this transformation has found numerous applications, and the antibiotics calicheamycin γ ' 1 [19] and herbimycin A, a herbicidal, antiviral and antitumor active metabolite of a Streptomyces strain, were first synthesized using [(Z)-γ-alkoxyallyl]diisopinocampheylborane in key steps [20]. The stereoselective alkoxyallylboration of amino compounds like 18 opens a versatile route to polyhydroxylated alkaloids, for example castanospermine and swainsonine [16,21], both known as potent glucosidase inhibitors, and analogues such Scheme 6 Preparation of functionalized allylation reagents Configurationally labile aldehydes may be allylated in situ, following low temperature reduction of esters, such as 25, and lactones with DIBAL-H and subsequent trapping of the ensuing aldehyde with the allylation reagent [30].…”