Concellón José M, Rodríguez-Solla Humberto, Concellón Carmen
Departamento de Química Organica e Inorganica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Oviedo, Julian Clavería 8, 33071 Oviedo, Spain.
J Org Chem. 2006 Sep 29;71(20):7919-22. doi: 10.1021/jo061465w.
A novel method to obtain racemic 1-nitroalkan-2-ols by reaction of bromonitromethane with a variety of aldehydes and promoted by SmI2 is reported. On the basis of these results, the chiral version has also been performed with chiral N,N-dibenzyl amino aldehydes, affording the corresponding enantiopure 3-amino-1-nitroalkan-2-ols with good stereoselectivity.