Synthesis 2010(11): 1787-1792  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218764
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Synthesis of Spherical Polyols from Itaconic Acid

Céline Reynauda, Henri Doucet*b, Maurice Santelli*a
a Laboratoire Chimie Provence, associé au CNRS, UMR 6264, Faculté des Sciences de Saint Jérôme, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France
Fax: +33(4)91289112; e-Mail: m.santelli@univ-cezanne.fr;
b Institut Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226, CNRS-Université de Rennes ‘Catalyse et Organometalliques’, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France
Fax: +33(2)23236939; e-Mail: henri.doucet@univ-rennes1.fr;
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Publication History

Received 22 January 2010
Publication Date:
29 April 2010 (online)

Abstract

The Diels-Alder reaction of some bromo derivatives of the itaconic acid with cyclopenta-1,3-diene gave a simple access to precursors of spherical polyols of synthetic interest.

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X-ray crystallography: CCDC-767345 (for endo-4) and CCDC-767346 (for 10) contain the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper. These data can be obtained free of charge at www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/conts/retrieving.html [or from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ, UK; fax: +44(1223)336033; or e-mail: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk].