Elodie Brun, Véronique Bellosta and Janine Cossy
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 6718-6721
DOI:
10.1039/C4CC02702G,
Communication
Stereocontrolled and efficient access to all the diastereomers of 1,3,5,7-tetraol structural units was developed using a Prins cyclisation–reductive cleavage sequence applied to tetrahydropyran aldehydes. Furthermore, these tetraols can be selectively functionalized.