Chlorodinitrophenylhydrazine, a useful crystalline agent for absolute configuration determination of various chiral ketones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2005.03.037

For the determination of absolute configuration of various chiral ketones, we examined some hydrazines having a heavy atom as crystalline auxiliaries, and found that 2-chloro-4,6-dinitrophenylhydrazine is a useful crystalline agent for carbonyl compounds.