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Synthesis of slagenins A, B, and C
A C Barrios Sosa1, K Yakushijin, D A Horne
1Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA.
Organic Letters
|November 18, 2000
Abstract:
[structure: see text] A short synthesis of the marine sponge metabolites slagenins A (1), B (2), and C (3) is described. The synthetic route features the preparation of beta-hydroxyimidazolone 4 from ornithine and its subsequent oxidative cyclization to the slagenin core.