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SUBMITTER: Aitken RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10180285 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20230501 9
(2<i>S</i>,5<i>S</i>)-5-Phenyl-2-<i>t</i>-butyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one, readily derived from mandelic acid, undergoes the Michael addition to butenolide and 4-methoxy-β-nitrostyrene with the absolute configuration of the products confirmed by X-ray diffraction in each case. In the former case, thermal fragmentation gives the phenyl ketone, thus illustrating use of the dioxolanone as a chiral benzoyl anion equivalent. The Diels-Alder cycloaddition chemistry of (2<i>S</i>)-5-methylene-2-<i>t</i>-butyl ...[more]