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Enantioselective synthesis of α-hydroxy carboxylic acids: Direct conversion of α-oxocarboxylic acids to enantiomerically enriched α-hydroxy carboxylic acids via neighboring group control

✍ Scribed by Zhe Wang; Brittany La; Joseph M. Fortunak; Xian-Jun Meng; George W. Kabalka


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
French
Weight
183 KB
Volume
39
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


o~-Oxocarboxylic acids can be reduced to the corresponding ~-hydroxy carboxylic acids employing DIP-CI ~ as a reducing agent. The cz-carboxylic substituent exerts a remarkable neighboring group effect on the reduction. The reaction presumably proceeds in an intramolecular fashion through a "'rigid" bicyclic transition state assembly, which produces enantioselectivities approaching 99%.


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