Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (11): 1820.

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Studies on the First Total Synthesis of (±)-Salvinolone

TIAN Yuan1, CHEN Ning1, QIN Bing-Chang1, PAN Xin-Fu1, HAO Xiao-Jiang2, CHEN Chang-Xiang2   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, National Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry,Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000;
    2. Zaborutory of Phytochemistry, Kunming Instigate of Botany, Academia Siniou, Kanming 650204
  • Received:1996-08-19 Online:1997-11-24 Published:1997-11-24

Abstract: Salvinolone is a polyoxygenated aromatic tricyclic diterpene which was firstisolated from the roots of Salva prionitis.The assignment of its structure for compound 1 wasmostly made on the basis of spectral data.In order to confirm the assigned structure, aconvergent synthesis of Salvinolone(1) has been achieved in nine steps, starting with3-fisopropoxy-5, 5-dimethyl-2-cyclohexenone (4) and alcohol (2) which are readily available.Thekey steps are alkylation of carbonyl compound and intramolecular Friedel-Crafts reaction.This is the first total synthesis of (±)-salvinolone.

Key words: Polyoxygenated aromatic tricyclic diterpene, Salvinolone, Total synthesis

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