Organocatalytic α-hydroxymethylation of cyclopentanone with aqueous formaldehyde: Easy access to chiral δ-lactones

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3955-3958

  Mase, Nobuyuki ^a   Inoue, Azusa ^a   Nishio, Masaki ^a   Takabe, Kunihiko ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aldol reaction; Chiral lactone; Jasmine lactone; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; PERFUME;

ALPHA HYDROXYMETHYLATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; AROMA; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; FLOWER; FRUIT; METHYLATION; OPTICAL ROTATION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

CATALYSIS; CYCLOPENTANES; FORMALDEHYDE; LACTONES; STEREOISOMERISM; THREONINE; WATER;

JASMINUM;

EID: 67649670046     PISSN: 0960894X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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