Syntheses of the four enantiomerically pure diastereomers of 8-F-2t-isopros
tane (5-8) are described. The key to this approach was to prepare the racem
ic alcohol 9 in high diastereomeric purity and then resolve 9 by lipase-med
iated acetylation to yield the enantiomerically pure alcohols 30 and 32.