Natural and unnatural A-seco terpenes from pulegone: Synthesis of galbanic acid and marneral revisited

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 36, 2009, Pages 6386-6392

  Corbu, Andrei ^a   Aquino, Maurizio ^a   Perez, Manuel ^a   Gandara, Zoila ^a   Arseniyadis, Siméon ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chiral pool; Microwave chemistry; Mitsunobu etherification; Natural products; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849086233     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200901021     Document Type: Article

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