Unprecedented preparation of pincer bis(oxazolinyl)phenyl ligands on solid support and their use in the first heterogeneously-catalyzed enantioselective allylation of aldehydes

Unprecedented solid-phase synthesis of bis(oxazolinyl)phenyl (Phebox) ligands via an efficient five-step sequence led to the demonstration of the first heterogeneously-catalysed enantioselective allylation of aldehydes.