The Journal of organic chemistry

A New Approach for the Chemoselective Debromination of Chiral Bromohydrins. Toward the Development of a Very General Approach to Enantiopure α- …

YC Wang, TH Yan

Index: Wang, Ying-Chuan; Yan, Tu-Hsin Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2000 , vol. 65, # 20 p. 6752 - 6755

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Abstract

The utility of chiral R-unsubstituted β-hydroxy carboxylate compounds in synthesis has stimulated the development of new methodology for their construction. The asymmetric aldol reactions appear as a one-step route to the chiral R-unsubstituted β-hydroxy carboxylates.