• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1585-1587
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• 2005

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.2431-2434
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• 2007

Potassium L-aspartate has been used as a catalyst for the cyanosilylation of carbonyl compounds producing corresponding cyanohydrin trimethylsilyl ethers in excellent yield of up to 98%. Although the catalyst is chiral, the enantioselectivities observed are generally poor except for one case, α-naphthaldehyde, 89% ee.