Abstract Treatment of iodo carbonates with LiHMDS at low temperature readily affords cyclic enol carbonates with either five-or six-membered rings. Reaction with potassium tert- butoxide results in the in situ formation of an enolate which after transmetallation participates in aldol or Mannich reactions. Alternatively, the potassium enolates can be trapped with silylating or triflating agents. The regio-and stereoselective generation of silyl enol ethers ...
