The stereochemistry of tritium substitution by the Wilzbach method. II. The distribution of tritium

Abstract

When (-)-inositol is submitted to the Wilzbach labelling procedure, tritium- labelled myoinositol is formed as a by-product. It is shown by degradation that the (-)-inositol is labelled nearly at random, whereas all the tritium in the myoinositol is attached to the carbon atom on which the configurational inversion has occurred.