C. Jacoby et al., ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF (3R,5R)-2,6-DIMETHYLHEPTANE-3,5-DIOL AND (3S,5S)-2,6-DIMETHYLHEPTANE-3,5-DIOL, USEFUL C-2 CHIRAL AUXILIARIES, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 6(3), 1995, pp. 753-756
(R,R)- and (S,S)-2,6-Dimethylheptane-3,5-diol, which are useful C-2 ch
iral auxiliaries, have been both synthesized in high optical purity fr
om 2,6-dimethylheptane-3,5-dione, by using as key step a Sharpless kin
etic resolution.