Abstract
A synthetic strategy toward the glutarimide-derived metabolite of thalidomide, 5′-hydroxythalidomide (5′-OH THD, 2) was developed which utilizes aspartic acid as a "chiral pool"-type starting material. The synthesis incorporates a Henry reaction as the key carbon-carbon bond-forming step followed by a tandem reduction-cyclization of the intermediate nitroalcohol in forming the heterocyclic core of 5′-OH THD.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 321-334 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Heterocycles |
| Volume | 70 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 31 Dec 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |