V. Cere et al., NEW SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE SYNTHETIC ROUTE, MEDIATED BY SULFUR, TO ENANTIOPURE (-)-CONDURITOL-E DERIVATIVE FROM D-MANNITOL, Tetrahedron letters, 38(44), 1997, pp. 7797-7800
We have synthesized a (-)-Conduritol E derivative, enantiomerically pu
re, using as starting material D-mannitol. This latter, possessing alr
eady the same configuration of the expected product at the four chiral
carbon atoms, was subjected to reaction to form a cyclic unsaturated
polyhydroxylated compound, preserving the configuration at all chiral
carbon atoms of the sugar. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.