Cd. Maycock et al., AN APPLICATION OF QUINIC ACID TO THE SYNTHESIS OF CYCLIC HOMOCHIRAL MOLECULES - A COMMON ROUTE TO SOME INTERESTING CARBOCYCLIC NUCLEOSIDE PRECURSORS, Tetrahedron letters, 34(49), 1993, pp. 7985-7988
A cyclopentane derivative elaborated from (-)-quinic acid has been con
vened efficiently and stereoselectively into several cyclopentylamines
, precursors to carbocyclic nucleosides which have previously been sho
wn to be biologically interesting.