Issue 10, 2005
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Prebiotic carbohydrate synthesis: zinc–proline catalyzes direct aqueous aldol reactions of α-hydroxy aldehydes and ketones†

Jacob Kofoed,a   Jean-Louis Reymonda  and  Tamis Darbre*a  

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a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Freiestrasse 3, Berne, Switzerland
E-mail: tamis.darbre@ioc.unibe.ch
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Abstract

Zn–proline catalyzed aldolisation of glycoladehyde gave mainly tetroses whereas in the cross-aldolisation of glycoladehyde and rac-glyceraldehyde, pentoses accounted for 60% of the sugars formed with 20% of ribose.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B501512J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Jan 2005
Accepted
22 Mar 2005
First published
14 Apr 2005

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005,3, 1850-1855

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Prebiotic carbohydrate synthesis: zinc–proline catalyzes direct aqueous aldol reactions of α-hydroxy aldehydes and ketones

J. Kofoed, J. Reymond and T. Darbre, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 1850 DOI: 10.1039/B501512J

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