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SUBMITTER: Huang K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2767257 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20090601 11
Borane-mediated reduction of aryl and alkyl ketones with alpha-aryl- and alpha-pyridyloxy groups affords beta-hydroxy ethers in high enantiomeric purity (up to 99% ee) and in good yield, using as catalyst 10 mol % of spiroborate ester 1 derived from (S)-diphenylprolinol. Representative beta-hydroxy ethers are successfully converted to beta-amino ethers, with minor epimerization, by phthalimide substitution under Mitsunobu's conditions followed by hydrazinolysis to obtain primary amino ethers or ...[more]