Chiral fluoxetine synthesis, using

Asymmetric reduction of or y-functionalized alkyl aryl ketones provides a wide variety of chiral amino alcohols. Commercial -chloropropiophenone is reduced with borane-tetrahydrofuran adduct catalyzed by oxazaborolidine 45 to provide the chlorohydrin in over 99 % yield with 94 % ee. The resulting alcohol is a key intermediate for synthesis of the R form of fluoxetine (Prozac ), a serotonin-uptake inhibitor [53]. Using hydrogenation processes the functionalized amino ketones are converted directly into the respective products [8, 43e],... 

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