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SUBMITTER: Trost BM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2850125 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trost Barry M BM Osipov Maksim M Dong Guangbin G
Organic letters 20100301 6
A concise, enantioselective synthesis of the potent aldose reductase inhibitor ranirestat (1) is reported. The synthesis was accomplished employing inexpensive, commercially available starting materials. A palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation (Pd-AAA) of malonate 4 was utilized as a key transformation to construct the tetrasubstituted chiral center in the target. ...[more]