Tetrahedron: Asymmetry

Enzymatic desymmetrisation of (2-hydroxymethyl-oxiranyl)-methanol in organic solvents

AM Cortijos, TJ Snape

Index: Cortijos, Andrea March; Snape, Timothy J. Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2008 , vol. 19, # 15 p. 1761 - 1763

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Abstract

The desymmetrisation of (2-hydroxymethyl-oxiranyl)-methanol has been achieved in excellent enantiomeric excess in organic solvents, to access (S)-(+)-(2-(hydroxymethyl) oxiran-2-yl) methyl acetate, for the first time. This work provides a complementary method to the desymmetrisation of the corresponding diacetate in aqueous buffer which yields the (R)- enantiomer and, as such, this new method should enable sequential chemical reactions to ...