A. Balog et al., A PRACTICAL ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF A PSEUDOMONIC ACID PRECURSOR FROMD-ARABINOSE OR D-XYLOSE, Synthetic communications, 26(5), 1996, pp. 935-944
The asymmetric synthesis of multi-gram quantities of a pseudomonic aci
d precursor is described. Improvements on the literature synthesis of
diacetyl arabinal from arabinose are also reported.