A practical asymmetric synthesis of a pseudomonic acid precursor from D-arabinose or D-xylose

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919608003698

The asymmetric synthesis of multi-gram quantities of a pseudomonic acid precursor is described. Improvements on the literature synthesis of diacetyl arabinal from arabinose are also reported.

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A Practical Asymmetric
Synthesis of A Pseudomonic
Acid Precursor from D-
Arabinose or D-Xylose
Aaron Balog a , Marvin S. Yu a , Dennis P. Curran
a , Guixue Yu b , Daniel R. Carcanague b & Youe-
Kong Shue b
a Department of Chemistry, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260,
USA
b Cubist Pharmaceuticals, 24 Emily Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
Published online: 21 Aug 2006.
To cite this article: Aaron Balog , Marvin S. Yu , Dennis P. Curran , Guixue Yu ,
Daniel R. Carcanague & Youe-Kong Shue (1996) A Practical Asymmetric Synthesis
of A Pseudomonic Acid Precursor from D-Arabinose or D-Xylose, Synthetic
Communications: An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic
Organic Chemistry, 26:5, 935-944, DOI: 10.1080/00397919608003698
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