Regioselective functionalization of glycerol with a dithiocarbamate moiety: an environmentally friendly route to safer fungicides

Abstract

We report here a convenient pathway for the direct functionalization of glycerol with a dithiocarbamate moiety. This work opens up a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly route to safer fungicides. It should be noted that whereas functionalization of glycerol usually suffers from a lack of selectivity, we show here that our process is fully regioselective.