Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... The chiral pool synthesis of enantiomerically pure anthracyclinone 6 from leucoquinizarin 10, and from 3-O-benzyl-1,2-O-isopropylidene-3-C-methyl-α-D-ribo-pentodialdo-1,4-furanose (9) readily obtained from diacetone glucose, is reported. ... J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans 1 ( ...