T. Konoike et Y. Araki, PRACTICAL SYNTHESIS OF CHIRAL SYNTHONS FOR THE PREPARATION OF HMG-COAREDUCTASE INHIBITORS, Journal of organic chemistry, 59(25), 1994, pp. 7849-7854
A practical procedure for the enantioselective preparation of opticall
y pure (R)- and (S)-monomethyl esters of 3-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)o
xy]pentanedioic acid has been developed by diastereoselective ring-ope
ning of 3-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]pentanedioic anhydride 5 by be
nzyl (R)- and (S)-mandelate, respectively. These half-esters afforded
chiral Wittig reagent 2 and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reagent 1 ef
ficiently which have been proved to be useful in the synthesis of HMG-
CoA reductase inhibitors. The method is applied to the synthesis of th
e (R)-3-methylglutaric acid, monomethyl ester.