Sorbitol compounds available from

Nature is the world-leading chemist in synthesizing chiral enantiopure substances, and a vast variety of structures isolated from plant or animal sources are available for the synthetic chemist to use as starting materials. Examples of chiral synthons from nature are amino acids, carbohydrates, hydroxy acids, terpenes, alkaloids, and so on (Figure 1.44). The most representative among them are commercially available compounds, such as ascorbic acid, (+)-calcium panthotenate, (—)-carvone, dextrose, ephedrine hydrochloride, (+)-limonene, L-lysine, mannitol, monosodium glutamate, norephedrine hydrochloride, quinidine, quinine, sorbitol, and L-treonine. The chiral pool strategy uses chiral compounds from nature or products derived thereof (e.g., from fermentation processes). Examples of industrial... 

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