Helvetica Chimica Acta, vol.98, no.8, pp.1127-1131, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
A stereospecific synthesis of (2S)-3-(2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)propane-1,2-diol from D-mannitol has been developed. The reaction of 2,3-O-isopropylidene-D-glyceraldehyde with 2,4,5-trifluorophenylmagnesium bromide gave [(4R)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl](2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)methanol in 65% yield as a mixture of diastereoisomers (1-:-1). The Ph