Abstract
The practical enantioselective syntheses of decursinol angelate and decursin were achieved in eight steps from resorcinol. The stereochemistry was addressed using the catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of 7-acetoxy-2,2-dimethylchromene by chiral (salen)Mn complexes as the key step.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4001-4003 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron Letters |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 24 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 Jun 11 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Highly Advanced Program (G7) from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea (Grant No. 00-G-NB-01-C-008). Fellowship support from the BK21 Program (J.L.) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would like to thank Professor Nakcheol Jeong for his insightful comments about this work.
Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation
- Decursin
- Decursinol
- Decursinol angelate
- Protein kinase C
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Drug Discovery
- Organic Chemistry