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SUBMITTER: Cho I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3201044 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20110922
A variety of ortho,ortho'-disubstituted hydrobenzoin derivatives are readily accessible through a directed ortho,ortho'-dimetalation strategy in which the alcohol functions in hydrobenzoin are deprotonated by n-BuLi and the resulting lithium benzyl alkoxides serve as directed metalation groups. The optimization and scope of this reaction are discussed, and the utility of this process is demonstrated in the one-pot preparation of a number of chiral diols as well as a short synthesis of the chiral ...[more]