Volume 31, Issue 9 pp. 1190-1192
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trans-2-tert-Butylcyclohexanol, a Simple Selectively Optimized Cyclohexanol Auxiliary

Dipl.-Chem. Peter Esser

Dipl.-Chem. Peter Esser

Institut für Organische Chemie der Technischen Hochschule, Prof.-Pirlet-Strasse 1, D-W-5100 Aachen (FRG)

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Dr. Helmut Buschmann

Dr. Helmut Buschmann

Institut für Organische Chemie der Technischen Hochschule, Prof.-Pirlet-Strasse 1, D-W-5100 Aachen (FRG)

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Markus Meyer-Stork

Markus Meyer-Stork

Institut für Organische Chemie der Technischen Hochschule, Prof.-Pirlet-Strasse 1, D-W-5100 Aachen (FRG)

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Scharf

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Scharf

Institut für Organische Chemie der Technischen Hochschule, Prof.-Pirlet-Strasse 1, D-W-5100 Aachen (FRG)

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First published: September 1992
Citations: 20

This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft und Raumfahrt e.V, Hauptabteilung Energietechnik, Köln, der Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. We are grateful to Hüls AG (Marl) for supplying technical 2-tert-butylcyclohexanol. We also thank D. Gillmann for the synthetic work and S. Diebel for performing the GC analyses.

Graphical Abstract

An economical auxiliary comparable to 8-phenylmenthol, trans-2-tert-butylcyclohexanol (1) was derived as a “structurally minimized” cyclohexanol with an optimized induction potential by application of the isoinversion principle and the structure–selectivity relationship of the cyclohexanol auxiliaries. A simple preparation of both enantiomers of 1 is possible on a large scale by the enzymatic saponification of a technical-grade product.

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