(2S,3S)-1-Phenylthio-2,3-butanediol. A Useful Chiral Building Block for a Simple Syntheses of (4R,5S)-5-Hydroxyhexan-4-olide and (4R,5S)-5-Hydroxy-2-hexen-4-olide
- 5 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 16 (11), 2227-2228
- https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1987.2227
Abstract
(4R,5S)-5-Hydroxyhexan-4-olide and (4R,5S)-5-hydroxy-2-hexen-4-olide were easily synthesized from (2S,3S)-1-phenylthio-2,3-butanediol, obtained by the bakers’ yeast reduction of 1-phenylthio-2,3-butanedione.Keywords
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