1. Department of Chemistry, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, SR1 3SD, UK;
2. Department of Applied Chemistry, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
Abstract:
S)-6-Fluoroshikimic acid 2 and (6 R ) 6 hydroxyshikimic acid 3 have been synthesized via an OsO 4 catalysed dihydroxylation of diene 7, which was derived from (-) shikimic acid 1.