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D-(−)-Quinic acid

98%

Synonym(s):

(-)-Quinic acid, (1alpha,3R,4alpha,5R)-1,3,4,5-Tetrahydroxycyclohexanecarboxylic acid, D-(-)-Quinic acid

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C7H12O6
CAS Number:
77-95-2
Molecular Weight:
192.17
Beilstein:
2212412
EC Number:
201-072-8
MDL number:
MFCD00003864
UNSPSC Code:
51113400
PubChem Substance ID:
24848361
NACRES:
NA.22
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Assay

98%

form

powder

optical activity

[α]20/D −43.9°, c = 11.2 in H2O

functional group

carboxylic acid
hydroxyl

SMILES string

O[C@@H]1C[C@@](O)(C[C@@H](O)[C@H]1O)C(O)=O

InChI

1S/C7H12O6/c8-3-1-7(13,6(11)12)2-4(9)5(3)10/h3-5,8-10,13H,1-2H2,(H,11,12)/t3-,4-,5-,7+/m1/s1

InChI key

AAWZDTNXLSGCEK-WYWMIBKRSA-N

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General description

D-(-)-Quinic acid, a plant metabolite, is chiral building block used in multistep chemical synthesis of natural compounds.[1]

Application

D-(−)-Quinic acid can be used as:      
  • A chiral selector electrolyte along with copper(II) sulfate. This electrolyte is utilized in chiral resolution DL-tartaric acid by ligand-exchange capillary electrophoresis method.[2]        
  • A starting material in the synthesis of stereoisomers of 3,4,6-trihydroxyazepanes, 7-hydroxymethyl-3,4,5-trihydroxyazepanes, and 3,4,5-trihydroxyazepanes, as potential inhibitors of glycosidase.[3]        
  • A precursor for the preparation of trihydroxy piperidine derivatives and (+)-proto-quercitol glycosidase inhibitors.[4]

D-(-)-Quinic acid has been used as a standard to determine the composition of organic acids in bitter gentian teas[5] and in developing cranberry fruit by HPLC.[6] It may be used in the preparation of 3,4-O-isopropylidene-3(R),4(S)-dihydroxycyclohexanone.[7]

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Hazard Statements

H319

Hazard Classifications

Eye Irrit. 2

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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A unified asymmetric approach to substituted hexahydroazepine and 7-azabicyclo [2.2. 1] heptane ring systems from D (-)-quinic acid: Application to the formal synthesis of (-)-balanol and (-)-epibatidine
Albertini E, et al
Tetrahedron Letters, 38(4), 681-684 (1997)
d-(-)-Quinic acid: a chiron store for natural product synthesis
Barco A, et al
Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 8(21), 3515-3545 (1997)
Tzenge-Lien Shih et al.
The Journal of organic chemistry, 72(11), 4258-4261 (2007-05-08)
Several new stereoisomers of 3,4,6-trihydroxyazepanes and 7-hydroxymethyl-3,4,5-trihydroxyazepanes as well as known 3,4,5-trihydroxyazepanes were synthesized as potent glycosidase inhibitors from D-(-)-quinic acid in an efficient manner. The key step employs dihydroxylation of protected chiral 1,4,5-cyclohex-2-enetriols under RuCl3/NaIO4/phosphate buffer (pH 7) condition
A facile synthesis of a new trihydroxy piperidine derivative and (+)-proto-quercitol from d-(-)-quinic acid
Shih T-L, et al.
Tetrahedron Letters, 45(29), 5751-5754 (2004)
S Kodama et al.
Journal of chromatography. A, 932(1-2), 139-143 (2001-11-07)
Chiral resolution of native DL-tartaric acid was performed by ligand-exchange capillary electrophoresis using copper(II)-D-quinic acid as a chiral selector. Factors affecting chiral resolution, migration time, and peak area of tartaric acid were studied. The running conditions for optimum separation of
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