This report synthesises findings from 2 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: Does chain-of-thought prompting mitigate the loss in code generation accuracy caused by adversarial perturbations in aligned versus base versions of recent open-source LLMs. 10 claims were extracted from source literature; 8 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 7.7/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: Does chain-of-thought prompting mitigate the loss in code generation accuracy caused by adversarial perturbations in aligned versus base versions of recent open-source LLMs?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 7.7/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.