New chiral ligands: 1,4-diols prepared from (S)-1-phenylethanol
摘要:
The stereochemistry of condensation of dilithiated 1-phenylethanol with various carbonyl compounds was investigated. In most cases the reaction proceeds nonstreoselectively, and only in the condensation with PhCOBu-t and 2,4-(MeO)(2)C(6)H(3)COPh only one of the diastereomeric diols prevailed. It was shown by XRD analysis that in the prevailing diastereomeric diol the newly formed chiral carbinol center possessed the same configuration as the initial alcohol. The synthesized diols form homochiral dimers in the crystal lattice.