Preparation of chiral trans-5-substituted-acenaphthene-1,2-diols by baker's yeast-mediated reduction of 5-substituted-acenaphthylene-1,2-diones

  • Lixiao Wang
  • , Xingyong Wang
  • , Jingnan Cui*
  • , Weimin Ren
  • , Nan Meng
  • , Jingyun Wang
  • , Xuhong Qian
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A series of trans-5-substituted-acenaphthene-1,2-diols were obtained in 21-72% yield with 97-100% ee by baker's yeast-mediated reduction of the corresponding acenaphthylene-1,2-diones, in the presence of DMSO as a co-solvent and under vigorous agitation. The absolute configuration of (-)-trans-5-methoxyacenaphthene-1,2-diol trans-3b and (-)-trans-5-bromo- acenaphthene-1,2-diol trans-3c was assigned as (S,S) and (-)-trans-5- thiomorpholin-acenaphthene-1,2-diol trans-3d was established as (R,R) by exciton-coupled circular dichroism.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)825-830
Number of pages6
JournalTetrahedron Asymmetry
Volume21
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Apr 2010
Externally publishedYes

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