Highly Efficient Conversion of (-)-Carvone to (+)-5β-Hydroxycarvone

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00218a026

(-)-Carvone has been efficiently transformed into (+)-5β-hydroxycarvone (1), which is expected to play an important role as a potential precursor or as a chiral template in the synthesis of natural products.Both hydroxy selenides 4 and 5, obtained by the