Y. Wu et M. Guan, SYNTHESIS OF 2 NOVEL CHIRAL BUILDING-BLOCKS FOR ANTI-1,3-DIOL AND SYN-1,3-DIOS, Indian journal of chemistry. Sect. B: organic chemistry, including medical chemistry, 37(9), 1998, pp. 844-846
Two novel chiral building blocks 1 and 2 for anti- and syn-1,3-diols h
ave been synthesized starting from the readily available and inexpensi
ve D-(+)-xylose.