Enantioselective total syntheses of (+)-decursin and related natural compounds using catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of an enone

Tetrahedron

Volumn 59, Issue 35, 2003, Pages 6889-6897

  Nemoto, Tetsuhiro ^a   Ohshima, Takashi ^a   Shibasaki, Masakatsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Decursin; Epoxidation of enone

Indexed keywords

DECURSIN; DECURSINOL; EPOXIDE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; MARMESIN; PALLADIUM; PEUCEDANOL; PRANTSCHIMGIN; PYRANOCOUMARIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; EPOXIDATION; KINETICS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0043160318     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(03)00861-5     Document Type: Article

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