Total Syntheses of All Four Stereoisomers of Piscidic Acid via Catalytic Asymmetric Dihydroxylation of (Z)- and (E)-trisubstituted Olefins

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1934-1941

  Toshima, Hiroaki ^a   Saito, Masatoshi ^a   Yoshihara, Teruhiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation; Cough medicine constituent; Hypnotic and narcotic drugs; Phosphorous uptake; Piscidic acid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007997537     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.1934     Document Type: Article

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