Enantiospecific strategy towards oxygen-bridged terpenoids: Tandem transannular-cyclization and ring-contraction processes

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-322

  Rosales, Antonio ^a   Estévez, Rosa E ^a   Cuerva, Juan M ^a   Oltra, J Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbocycles; Cyclization; Epoxidation; Ring contraction; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXYGEN; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

GEROMCAROLIDES; OXYGEN-BRIDGED TERPENOIDS; RIGID MOLECULES; TRANSANNULAR CYCLIZATION;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

1,4 EPOXYCYCLONONANE; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; DIHYDROPARTHENOLIDE; EPOXIDE; GERMACROLIDE; OXYGEN; PARTHENOLIDE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CYCLIZATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; EPOXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CYCLIZATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXYGEN; STEREOISOMERISM; TERPENES;

EID: 11844298422     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200461210     Document Type: Article

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