Fm. Kiess et al., SYNTHESIS OF IMINOPOLYOLS VIA HENRY REACTION - A SHORT ROUTE TO THE ALPHA-MANNOSIDASE INHIBITOR 1,4-DIDEOXY-1,4-IMINO-D-MANNITOL AND TO AMINO ANALOGS, Chemical communications, (1), 1998, pp. 119-120
The alpha-mannosidase inhibitor 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM)
as well as amino analogues of DIM and of deoxy-manno-nojirimycin, res
pectively, have been prepared using a diastereoselective nitroaldol ad
dition as the key step.