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Synthesis of 6-deoxy-6-fluoro-L-ascorbic acid

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6-Deoxy-6-fluoro-L-ascorbic acid has been synthesized in 5 steps starting from 2,3-4,6-di-O-isopropylidene-2-keto-L-gulonic acid.

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Dedicated to Professor Albert Szent-Györgyi, National Foundation for Cancer Research, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on the occasion of his 85th birthday.

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Kiss, J., Arnold, W. Synthesis of 6-deoxy-6-fluoro-L-ascorbic acid. Experientia 36, 1138–1139 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01976086

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