Chemical Properties
white to beige or light brown crystalline powder
Uses
(
R,R)-(+)-Hydrobenzoin may be used in the oxyselenenylation step in the multi-step synthesis of cyclopentitols and aminocyclopentitols from cyclopentene. It may also be used as a ligand for the asymmetric addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes in the presence or absence of titanium tetra-isopropoxide to form (
R)- or (
S)-form of the corresponding secondary alcohol, respectively.
Definition
ChEBI: (R,R)-hydrobenzoin is a hydrobenzoin.
General Description
(
R,R)-(+)-Hydrobenzoin is a chiral 1,2-diol useful as a chiral reagent, building block, ligand or auxiliary in asymmetric synthesis.
