Tetrahedron Letters

Highly diastereoselective photoaddition of methanol to limonene

DS Kim, SC Shim, T Wada, Y Inoue

Index: Kim, Dong Suk; Shim, Sang Chul; Wada, Takehiko; Inoue, Yoshihisa Tetrahedron Letters, 2001 , vol. 42, # 26 p. 4341 - 4344

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Abstract

The development of highly stereoselective reactions is among the most challenging and intensively studied frontiers in organic synthesis. Hammond and Cole 1., and pioneered the field of photochemical asymmetric induction by studying photosensitized isomerization of trans-1,2-diphenylcyclopropane utilizing a chiral naphthalene derivative as a sensitizer. Many photochemical studies 2., , , , and have been carried out since then but the optical yields obtained by photochemical ...