First stereoselective synthesis of the versatile chiral building block (7aR)-5,6-dihydro-7a-methyl-1H-indene-2,7(4H,7aH)-dione

Citation
Zl. Wei et al., First stereoselective synthesis of the versatile chiral building block (7aR)-5,6-dihydro-7a-methyl-1H-indene-2,7(4H,7aH)-dione, SYNTHESIS-S, (12), 2000, pp. 1673-1676
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry & Analysis","Organic Chemistry/Polymer Science
Journal title
SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART
ISSN journal
00397881 → ACNP
Issue
12
Year of publication
2000
Pages
1673 - 1676
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-7881(200011):12<1673:FSSOTV>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A versatile chiral building block (7aR)-5,6-dihydro-7a-methyl-1H-indene-2,7 (4H,7aH)-dione (4) was firstly enantiomerically synthesized from the microb ial transformation ketol product 6 in 61.3% overall yield and over 96% ee.