On the possibility of determining stereochemistry in acyclic polyhydroxylated compounds by the combined vicinal coupling constant/molecular mechanics method. A test with alditol peracetates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)86464-4

Relative configurations of multiple asymmetric centers in alditol peracetates can be determined with 92% confidence from vicinal H/H coupling constants along backbone chain and molecular mechanics calculations.