The synthesis and manipulation of certain Diels & #x2013;Alder adducts of levoglucosenone and iso-levoglucosenone

Brett Pollard, Xin Liu, Luke A. Connal, Martin G. Banwell, Michael G. Gardiner Structural formulae of levoglucosenone and its pseudo-enantiomer iso-levoglucosenone.In the pursuit of new monomers for the sustainable production of polymers, the biomass-derived and platform molecule levoglucosenone (LGO, 1) as well as the pseudo-enantiomeric compound iso-levoglucosenone (iso-LGO, 3) were engaged in a series of Diels–Alder cycloaddition reactions with a range of cyclic dienes. Various manipulations of the resulting adducts provided new monomeric systems likely to be suitable for polymerisation.
Source: Australian Journal of Chemistry - Category: Chemistry Authors: Source Type: research