TY - JOUR JF - Chemistry A1 - Foster, RW A1 - Tame, CJ A1 - Bu?ar, DK A1 - Hailes, HC A1 - Sheppard, TD SN - 1521-3765 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201503510 N1 - © 2015 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons At- tributionLicense, whichpermits use, distributionand reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. IS - 45 VL - 21 SP - 15947 KW - arabinose KW - biomass KW - cyclization KW - hydrazines KW - tetrahydrofurans ID - discovery1472231 N2 - L-Arabinose is an abundant resource available as a waste product of the sugar beet industry. Through use of a hydrazone-based strategy, L-arabinose was selectively dehydrated to form a chiral tetrahydrofuran on a multi-gram scale without the need for protecting groups. This approach was extended to other biomass-derived reducing sugars and the mechanism of the key cyclization investigated. This methodology was applied to the synthesis of a range of functionalized chiral tetrahydrofurans, as well as a formal synthesis of 3R-3-hydroxymuscarine. TI - Sustainable Synthesis of Chiral Tetrahydrofurans through the Selective Dehydration of Pentoses EP - 15950 AV - public Y1 - 2015/11/02/ ER -