Absolute configuration of insect-produced epilachnene

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2787-2790

  Farmer, Jay J ^a   Attygalle, Athula B ^a   Smedley, Scott R ^a   Eisner, Thomas ^a   Meinwald, Jerrold ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0343196694     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(97)00490-5     Document Type: Article

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10. All key intermediates were characterized on the basis of NMR and MS data. The details of this synthesis are now being prepared for publication.
11. 3P=CHCOPh) are well known, see: Hon, S. H.; Lu, L.; Tetrahedron, 1995, 29, 7937-7942, and refrences cited therein. To our knowledge, the reaction of an ozonide with an unstabilized Wittig reagent to give a non-conjugated product has not been previously reported.
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