Schmidt and Rutz reaction

In similar fashion, 6-nitro-6-desoxysorbitol gives 87 percent of the acetylated nitroolefin, L-zyfo-tetraacetoxy-l-nitrohexene-l, without purification of the intermediate, sirupy nitroalcohol pentaacetate.54 1-Nitro-1-desoxy-D-arabitol tetraacetate30 gives, in the Schmidt and Rutz reaction, 81 percent of D-en/fftro-triacetoxy-l-nitropentene-1 1-nitro-l-desoxy-D-manno-D-graZa-heptitol hexaacetate42 similarly gives 90 percent of D-marmo-pentaacetoxy-l-nitroheptene-1. 

D-arabo-i-nitrohexene-i, by using the Schmidt and Rutz reaction for the preparation of nitro lefines from nitro-alcohols. Starting with this compound O Neill prepared iV-acetyl-D-mannosamine by addition of NH3 to the double bond and elimination of the nitro group by means of the Nef reaction. ... 

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