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Back to the sugars: A new enantio and diastereocontrolled route to hexoses from furfural
Takeuchi, Miwako,Taniguchi, Takahiko,Ogasawara, Kunio
, p. 341 - 354 (2007/10/03)
An integrated enantio and diastereocontrolled route to both enantiomers of the eight possible hexoses has been explored starting from furfural, by employing the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation as a key step. At the present, a route to six of the eight possible hexoses has been established. The present synthesis may be taken as a reversion of the sugar-originated furfural to the sugars via a levoglucosenone, a pyrolysate of cellulose, type intermediate.