A Novel Chiral Auxiliary for Enantioselective Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohol |
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| Authors: | Brindaban C Ranu Rupak Chakraborty Dipak C Sarkar |
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| Institution: | Department of Organic Chemistry , Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science , Jadavpur, Calcutta, 700 032, India |
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| Abstract: | The use of 1-menthyl ester of 1,3-dithiane-2-carboxylic acid as a chiral auxilary for the conversion of acetophenone, propiophenone and butyrophenone to the corresponding optically active tertiary alcohols 2-phenylhexan-2-ol, 3-phenylheptan-3-ol and 4-phenyloctan-4-ol, has been demonstrated. |
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