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Xiaoming Yang1, Yu Zhao1, Min-Tsang Hsieh1,2,3
1Natural Products Research Laboratories, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Abstract:
(+)-Medicarpin has been synthesized asymmetrically for the first time in a linear scalable process with an overall yield of 11%. The two chiral centers were constructed in one step via condensation using a chiral oxazolidinone auxiliary. This method will likely accelerate research on medicarpin as an erythropoietin inducer for erythropoietin-deficient diseases.
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