著者
大石 武 中田 忠
出版者
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
雑誌
有機合成化学協会誌 (ISSN:00379980)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.39, no.7, pp.633-641, 1981-07-01 (Released:2009-11-13)
参考文献数
30
被引用文献数
3 4

Highly stereocontrolled reduction of α-methyl β-keto esters, 3-hydroxy-2-methyl ketones, and α, β-epoxy ketones with Zn(BH4)2 has been described. In every case, the predominated products were found to be erythro-alcohols. A plausible mechanism to account for these high selectivity is discussed.Synthetic studies of erythronolide A starting from erythro-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropionates prepared by the reduction of the corresponding β-keto esters with Zn(BH4)2 have also been described.