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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Moore JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3932135 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20131101 22
A concise synthesis of homocitric acid lactone was developed to accommodate systematic placement of carbon isotopes (specifically (13)C) for detailed studies of this cofactor. This new route uses a chiral allylic alcohol, available in multigram quantities from enzymatic resolution, as a starting material, which transposes asymmetry through an Ireland-Claisen rearrangement. ...[more]