KINETIC RESOLUTION IN ASYMMETRIC ANTI ALDOL REACTIONS OF BRANCHED ANDSTRAIGHT-CHAIN RACEMIC 2-PHENYLSULFANYL ALDEHYDES - ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF CYCLIC ETHERS AND LACTONES BY PHENYLSULFANYL MIGRATION
K. Chibale et S. Warren, KINETIC RESOLUTION IN ASYMMETRIC ANTI ALDOL REACTIONS OF BRANCHED ANDSTRAIGHT-CHAIN RACEMIC 2-PHENYLSULFANYL ALDEHYDES - ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF CYCLIC ETHERS AND LACTONES BY PHENYLSULFANYL MIGRATION, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (16), 1996, pp. 1935-1940
The kinetic resolution of branched and straight chain 2-phenylsulfanyl
aldehydes by the Lewis acid-catalysed asymmetric anti aldol reaction
followed by reduction to single enantiomers of 1,3-diols and/or acid-c
atalysed cyclisation with PhS migration provides a route to enantiomer
ically pure cyclic ethers and lactones with full stereochemical contro
l.