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Synthesis of (+)-puraquinonic acid
1Chemistry Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G2.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
(+)-Puraquinonic acid (1a) was synthesized, using a route based on ring-closing metathesis and radical cyclization, the chirality of the quaternary carbon being controlled by a temporary adjacent asymmetric center.