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Enantioselective synthesis of monocerin and fusarentin ethers: Antifungal and insecticidal fungal metabolites.

MP Dillon, TJ Simpson, JB Sweeney

Index: Dillon, Michael P.; Simpson, Thomas J.; Sweeney, J. B. Tetrahedron Letters, 1992 , vol. 33, # 49 p. 7569 - 7572

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Abstract

Abstract Fusarentin 4, 5-dimethyl ether (4) is synthesized via condensation of the benzylic anion of ethyl 3, 4, 5-trimethoxy-6-methylbenzoate (7) with (S)-3- tetrahydropyranyloxyhexanal (8); subsequent biomimetic cyclisation of (4) gives monocerin (1).