Claims
- 1. A method for producing tetrahydrofuranyl compounds of the formulae: ##STR127## in which Ac is an acetyl group, which comprises: a) reacting benzyloxyacetaldehyde diethyl acetal with a mineral acid to give benzyloxyacetaldehyde;
- b) reacting the benzyloxyacetaldehyde with a compound having an allyl metal complex to give 1-phenylmethoxy-4-penten-2-ol as racemate or pure enantioners;
- c) treating the 1-phenylmethoxy-4-penten-2-ol with a halogenating agent to give 4,5-dihalo-1-(phenylmethoxy)-2-pentanol;
- d) reacting the 4,5-dihalo-1-(phenylmethoxy)-2-pentanol with a suitable base to accomplish ring closure to give a mixture of cis and trans 4-halo-2-tetrahydrofuran;
- e) chromatographically separating the cis and trans isomers of step (d) to give the pure cis and trans isomers;
- f) reacting the pure isomers of step (e) with a suitable thioacetate compound to give compounds of formulae: ##STR128## g) and hydrolysis of the phenylmethoxy group to give the desired tetrahydrofuranyl compounds.
Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/182,781, filed on Jan. 26, 1994, which is a continuation-in-part of 08/033,684, filed Mar. 16, 1993, now abandoned.
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