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Total Synthesis of Naturally Configured Pyrrhoxanthin, a Carotenoid Butenolide from Plankton
Author(s) -
Burghart Jochen,
Brückner Reinhard
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200801638
Subject(s) - butenolide , stille reaction , carotenoid , scheme (mathematics) , block (permutation group theory) , computer science , chemistry , stereochemistry , mathematics , food science , combinatorics , organic chemistry , mathematical analysis , polymer
A carotenoid from the chemical kitchen : Two sequential Stille couplings of an unsymmetric distannane building block with a bromoolefin and a bromoalkyne terminated a highly convergent synthesis of the title compound, pyrrhoxanthin (see scheme).