Carotenoids and related polyenes. Part 3. First total synthesis of fucoxanthin and halocynthiaxanthin using oxo-metallic catalyst
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 15,p. 1895-1904
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19950001895
Abstract
The first total synthesis of optically active fucoxanthin 1 and halocynthiaxanthin 2 had been accomplished via the 8-oxo compound 5, efficiently prepared by rearrangement of the α-acetylenic alcohol 10 using oxo-metallic catalyst and subsequent iodine-catalysed double-bond shift.Keywords
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