Abstract
The conjugate addition of the phenyldimethylsilyl-cuprate reagent to cinnamate and crotonate esters and amides of various known chiral auxilaries is diastereoselective, making available β-silylesters of high enantiomeric excess; the sense of the diastereoselectivity is anomalously different from established precedent in the case of silyl-cuprate addition to the cinnamate ester (1, R = Ph, R*=d).

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