a Department of Chemistry, Dainton Building, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK b Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ramsgate Road, Sandwich CT13 9NJ, UK
Abstract:
A tandem approach for the preparation of gram quantities of enantiomerically pure 9-(hydroxyethyl)-anthracene is presented using an asymmetric reduction followed by kinetic resolution that has potential applicability to other chiral alcohols.