Lipase-catalysed kinetic resolution of 1-O-alkylglycerols by sequential transesterification

A Halldorsson, P Thordarson, B Kristinsson…

Index: Halldorsson, Arnar; Thordarson, Pall; Kristinsson, Bjorn; Magnusson, Carlos D.; Haraldsson, Gudmundur G. Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2004 , vol. 15, # 18 p. 2893 - 2899

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Abstract

The natural S-configured chimyl, batyl and selachyl alcohols of the 1-O-alkylglycerol type were prepared by enantioselective lipase-catalysed transesterification. Their racemates were synthesised in two steps by reacting racemic solketal with the bromides of the corresponding fatty alcohols and a subsequent conversion of the intermediates into the 1-O- alkylglycerols by deprotection under acidic aqueous conditions. The Pseudomonas ...