• Title/Summary/Keyword: Safingol

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Stereoselective Transformation of Phytosphingosine to Safingol

  • Kim, Na-Ri;Lee, Sun-Hee;Namgoong, Sung-Keon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.695-699
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    • 2009
  • A short and efficient synthesis of (2S,3S)-safingol from commercially available D-ribo-(2S,3S,4R)-phytosphingosine is described. The highlights of the synthesis are a stereoselective one-pot transformation of a diol into an epoxide under phase transfer catalytic conditions and a regioselective epoxide-opening reduction with a hydride reagent.