Martin G. Banwell, Xinghua Ma, Naoki Asano, Kyoko Ikeda and John N. Lambert
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003,1, 2035-2037
DOI:
10.1039/B304063A,
Communication
The naturally occurring sugar mimetic alkaloids 1-deoxymannojirimycin (DMJ, 1) and 6-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-DMJ (2) have each been prepared in a completely stereoselective manner from the cis-1,2-dihydrocatechol 3, itself obtained in enantiomerically pure form by microbial oxidation of chlorobenzene.