Inside Cover: Enantioselective Isomerization of Primary Allylic Alcohols into Chiral Aldehydes with the tol‐binap/dbapen/Ruthenium(II) Catalyst (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 29/2013)

Enantioselective isomerization of γ‐substituted primary allylic alcohols into the β‐substituted aldehydes with the [RuCl 2 {(S)‐tol‐binap}{( R )‐dbapen}]/KOH catalyst system is described by T. Ohkuma and co‐workers in their Communication on page 7500 ff. A series of E ‐ and Z ‐configured aromatic and aliphatic allylic alcohols, including a simple primary‐alkyl‐substituted compound ( E )‐3‐methyl‐2‐hepten‐1‐ol, is transformed to the aldehydes in almost enantiomerically pure form.