AN IMPROVED PROCEDURE FOR THE LIPASE-CATALYZED KINETIC RESOLUTION OF ENDO-ENDO-CIS-BICYCLO[3.3.0]OCTANE-2,6-DIOL - SYNTHESIS OF POTENTIAL C-2-SYMMETRICAL ENANTIOMERICALLY PURE BIDENTATE AUXILIARIES
K. Lemke et al., AN IMPROVED PROCEDURE FOR THE LIPASE-CATALYZED KINETIC RESOLUTION OF ENDO-ENDO-CIS-BICYCLO[3.3.0]OCTANE-2,6-DIOL - SYNTHESIS OF POTENTIAL C-2-SYMMETRICAL ENANTIOMERICALLY PURE BIDENTATE AUXILIARIES, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 8(12), 1997, pp. 2051-2055
An improved procedure for the kinetic resolution of endo-endo-cis-bicy
clo[3.3.0]octane-2,6-diol rac-1 by transesterification with vinyl acet
ate catalysed by lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia in an organic solvent
which yields both enantiomers with an enantiomeric excess of > 95% is
described. The configuration at both stereogenic centres bearing hydr
oxy groups has been inverted by treatment of the corresponding mesylat
es with caesium acetate in the presence of 18-crown-6 to afford, after
deacetylation, the corresponding enantiomerically pure diastereoisome
ric exo-exo-cis-diols. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.