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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

Assay

98%

form

powder

optical activity

[α]20/D −43.9°, c = 11.2 in H2O

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.

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.        
  • 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.        
  • A precursor for the preparation of trihydroxy piperidine derivatives and (+)-proto-quercitol glycosidase inhibitors.

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

Pictograms

Exclamation mark
GHS07

Signal Word

Warning

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

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Christopher J Potter et al.
Nature protocols, 6(8), 1105-1120 (2011-07-09)
In Drosophila, the GAL4/UAS/GAL80 repressible binary expression system is widely used to manipulate or mark tissues of interest. However, complex biological systems often require distinct transgenic manipulations of different cell populations. For this purpose, we recently developed the Q system
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 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)
Qiuling Li et al.
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Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model organism for dissecting the molecular mechanisms that regulate sleep, and numerous studies in the fly have identified genes that impact sleep-wake cycles. Conditional genetic analysis is essential to distinguish the mechanisms by which these
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