DIACETONE XYLITOL - The Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS

[CONTRIBUTION

FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH IN PURECHEMISTRY, MELLON RESEARCH]

IXSTIPUTE O F INDUSTRIAL

DIACETOKE XYLITOL R. STUART TIPSOK

AND

LEONARD H. CRETCHER

Received November 4 , 1942

In the course of other work, it recently became desirable to prepare 3-tosyl xylitol and certain of its derivatives. It appeared probable that this could be accomplished by performing the following series of reactions. CHZO CHO

I HCOH I HOCH I HCOH I

CH2 OH

D -xylose

I

I

CH2 OH

I

I

KCOH

-+

\ / C

\ ' O

C HB

HCO

I HOCH

-+

I

CH3

I

HOCH

__f

I

IlCO

HCOH

I