Issue 16, 2011
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Direct conversion of acetals to esters with high regioselectivity via O,P-acetals†

Tomohiro Maegawa,a   Kazuki Otake,a   Akihiro Gotoa  and  Hiromichi Fujioka*a  

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a Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, 1-6 Yamada-oka, Osaka, Japan
E-mail: fujioka@phs.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

A new direct conversion of O,O-acetals to esters via O,P-acetal intermediates was developed. The regioselective cleavage of unsymmetrical cyclic acetals occurred to give the more crowded esters as single isomers.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1OB05687E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 May 2011
Accepted
09 Jun 2011
First published
29 Jun 2011

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011,9, 5648-5651

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Direct conversion of acetals to esters with high regioselectivity via O,P-acetals

T. Maegawa, K. Otake, A. Goto and H. Fujioka, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 5648 DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05687E

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