55861-03-5Relevant articles and documents
Desymmetrization of cyclohexa-1,4-dienes - A straightforward route to cyclic and acyclic polyhydroxylated systems
Landais, Yannick,Zekri, Elisabeth
, p. 4037 - 4053 (2002)
A straightforward route to polyols, amino polyols, polysubstituted lactols and lactones from readily available arenes has been devised. It uses a three- or four-step sequence involving a Birch reduction of the arene, followed by desymmetrization through d