Highly diastereoselective photoaddition of methanol to limonene

✍ Scribed by Dong Suk Kim; Sang Chul Shim; Takehiko Wada; Yoshihisa Inoue

• Book ID: 104230788
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 109 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00722-5

✦ Synopsis

Extremely high diastereomeric excess was achieved from the photosensitized polar addition of methanol to (R)-(+)limonene 1. Diastereomeric excess was varied from 28.1 to 96.3% depending on the solvent polarity, reaction temperature, and structure of sensitizer.