Cellulose as source of new chiral inductors for asymmetric synthesis

BOTTA, M. C.; CORNE, V.; LLOMPART, D.F.; ZANARDI, M.M.; SAROTTI, A.M.; SUÁREZ, A.G.; SPANEVELLO, R.A.

Montreal

Congreso; 9th Annual ACS Summer School on Sustainability on Green Chemistry; 2011

ACS

Biomass is a widely available raw material which has been recognized as an important source of fuels and chemical products. By far, carbohydrates are the major annually renewable biofeedstocks from which to develop viable organic chemicals that can compete or eventually replace those derived from fossil sources. Cellulose, is the most common organic compound on Earth. For this reason, the generation of useful chemicals from cellulose or cellulosic waste materials is of great interest readily available member of the carbohydrate derived chiral pool, which has been used as chiral synthon in the synthesis of a wide variety of compounds. As part of our program on the pyrolytic conversion of cellulose waste into high value chemicals, we have been concerned with the synthetic application of levoglucosenone as a chiral building block in the development of new asymmetric inductors.