Solvent effect and NMR behaviour in a chiral amidophosphine mediated reaction of organocuprate with chalcone

Abstract
A dramatic reversal in the direction of enantiofacial differentiation has been observed in a chiral phosphine mediated reaction of organocuprate with chalcone providing S- and R-products in diethyl ether and tetrahydrofuran (THF), respectively, and correlated with the pattern of coordination.