| Literature DB >> 20052974 |
Mercedes Lecea1, Gloria Hernández-Torres, Antonio Urbano, M Carmen Carreño, Françoise Colobert.
Abstract
The asymmetric synthesis of the natural gamma-tocopherol metabolite (S)-gamma-CEHC (1) is described in 10 steps and 18.4% overall yield starting from 2,3-dimethylhydroquinone. The key step is a stereoselective TiCl(4)-mediated homochiral sulfoxide-directed allylation of ketal (SS)-3 to efficiently generate the challenging C-2 stereogenic carbon of chroman (SS,S)-2 with the correct absolute configuration.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20052974 DOI: 10.1021/ol9027804
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005