(R)-5-Bromo-6-(bromomethyl)-2-(tert-butyl)-2H, 4H-1,3-dioxin-4-one (2) derived from (R)-3-hydroxybutanoic acid is used for substitutions and chain elongations at the side-chain C-atom in the 6-position of the heterocycle (43-6, 10-13). Subsequent simultaneous reductive debromination and double-bond hydrogenation (Pd/C,H,) occurs with essentially complete diastereoselectivity ( > 98 % ds), with H transfer from the face opposite to the t-Bu group (+15-20, Table 1). Hydrolytic cleavages of the dioxanones then lead to enantiomerically pure P-hydroxy-acid derivatives (overall self-reproduction of the stereogenic center of 3-hydroxybutanoic acid or alkylation in the 4-position of this acid with preservation of configuration).In the course of our work on the use of the biopolymer polyhydroxybutyrate/valerate (PHB/PHV) [ 11, we have found that it is possible to prepare non-racemic dioxinones with a pivalaldehyde-derived stereogenic center, see Scheme I [2] [3]. We describe here reactions of such dioxinones at the side chain in position 6 of the heterocyclic ring2), followed by diastereoselective catalytic hydrogenation with regeneration of a stereogenic center in that position. Thus, in the overall transformation, a hydrogen atom in the 4-position of