ChemInform Abstract: Enantiomerically Pure Building Blocks from Sugars. Part 10. 2,3‐Dihydropyranones with Contiguous Chiral Centers: Practical Routes for Their Aquisition and Evaluation of Their Reaction Potential.

Abstract

A practical, large‐scale adaptable four‐step procedure is given for the conversion of D‐glucose (I) into pyranoid enediolone esters with (R,R)‐configuration in contiguous chiral centers such as (IV).