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Addition when you have no potential chiral centers
« on: February 03, 2013, 02:57:58 PM »


If you want to perform the above synthesis, does it matter if it is anti-dihydroxylation or syn-dihydroxylation since there are no potential chiral centers anyway?

My solutions manual said to use OsO4, NMO as the reagents (syn); I initially thought of using MCPBA/H3O+ (anti)
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Re: Addition when you have no potential chiral centers
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2013, 03:02:32 PM »
Why are you talking about du-hydroxylation? Have you missed out an OH somewhere?
Anyway it does not really matter how you do it OsO4/NMMNO is ok.
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Re: Addition when you have no potential chiral centers
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2013, 03:41:17 PM »
Thanks.

Looks like the top OH got cut off, I guess. There's supposed to be 2 of them.
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