New synthesis of (±)-meroquinene aldehyde and its epimer from (±)-norcamphor

1 January 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 13,p. 556-557
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39790000556

Abstract

A new route converting (±)-norcamphor into ±-meroquinene aldehyde (1), a key intermediate in the synthesis of the cinchona alkaloids, and its epimer, (±)-epimeroquinene aldehyde (2), has been developed.

Keywords

CONVERTING
ALKALOIDS
CINCHONA
EPIMEROQUINENE
NORCAMPHOR
MEROQUINENE ALDEHYDE
NEW SYNTHESIS