P. Munier et al., TRIFLUOROMETHYLATION OF SUGAR 1,4-LACTONES - SYNTHESIS OF 5-DEOXY-5,5,5-TRIFLUORO-D AND L-RIBOSE AND LYXOSE DERIVATIVES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(51), 1993, pp. 8241-8244
The four 5-deoxy-5,5,5-trifluoro-D and L-ribo and -lyxo furanoses were
synthesized from lactones using CF(3)SiMe(3) in 5 or 6 steps and 30-4
0 % overall yield. The key step was a stereoselective reduction of 1,1
,1-trifluoror-2-ketoses with LialH(4) or NaBH4 at an anomeric centre.