Henrot, Serge; Larcheveque, Marc; Petit, Yves published the artcile< Amino acids as chiral synthons: preparation of enantiomerically pure (R)- and (S)-malic acids and its application to the synthesis of 3-hydroxy-4-butanolide>, Related Products of 617-55-0, the main research area is aspartic acid deamination nitrous acid; malic acid conversion hydroxybutanolide; enantiomeric purity hydroxybutanolide malic acid; amino acid chiral synthon.
Nitrous acid deamination of (S)-aspartic acid gave (S)-malic acid, which dissolved in AcCl to give anhydride I. Reaction of I with MeOH gave the half ester which was chemoselectively reduced by borohydride to hydroxybutanolide II of high optical purity.
Synthetic Communications published new progress about Chiral synthons. 617-55-0 belongs to class esters-buliding-blocks, and the molecular formula is C6H10O5, Related Products of 617-55-0.
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