Asymmetric dihydroxylation of a meso-symmetric cyclic diene using AD-mix reagents: a new enantiocontrolled route to conduritol E
作者:Seiichi Takano、Takehiko Yoshimitsu、Kunio Ogasawara
DOI:10.1021/jo00080a011
日期:1994.1
The asymmetric dihydroxylation of two symmetric cyclohexa-1,3-diene derivatives, including a meso-symmetric substrate, has been investigated for the first time using the Sharpless AD-mix reagents. Although cyclohexa-1,3-diene, itself showed unsatisfactory enantioselectivity, meso-symmetric 1,2-O-benzylidene-cis-cyclohexa-3,5-diene-1,2-diol showed a practical level of enantioselectivity and furnished the optically active diol in good yield. The diol obtained could be transformed into optically pure (+)-conduritol E in good yield, after a single recrystallization. The stereochemical outcome of the dihydroxylation was in harmony with the observations so far reported.