Inversion of configurations of contiguous carbinol centres: application to the synthesis of both enantiomers of natural products from the same enantiomerically pure starting material

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0008-6215(90)84073-4

A novel method for effecting the inversion of configuration of two and three contiguous carbinol centers in a diol, triol, and tetraol chain, thus affording the opposite enantiomer with >/=98percent e.e., has been developed.The method is based on the sequ