AN EFFICIENT AND STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF PLATELET-ACTIVATING FACTORS AND THE ENANTIOMERS FROM D- AND L-TARTARIC ACIDS

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)87654-6

Acetyl glyceryl ether phosphorylcholines, platelet-activating factors (1 and 2), were efficiently synthesized in a stereochemically unambiguous manner starting from D- and L- tartaric acids as the chiral synthons.