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SUBMITTER: Edin M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC395981 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040406 16
A one-pot synthesis of enantiomerically pure syn-1,3-diacetates starting from readily accessible racemic diastereomeric mixtures of 1,3-diols has been realized by combining (i) enzymatic transesterification, (ii) ruthenium-catalyzed epimerization of a secondary alcohol in a diol or diol monoacetate, and (iii) intramolecular acyl migration in a syn-1,3-diol monoacetate. The in situ coupling of these three processes results in an efficient enantioselective synthesis of acyclic syn-1,3-diacetates v ...[more]