Phytochemistry

Synthesis of rooperol [1, 5-bis (3′, 4′-dihydroxyphenyl) pent-1-en-4-yne]

M Potgieter, GL Wenteler, SE Drewes

Index: Potgieter, Maudene; Wenteler, George L.; Drewes, Siegfried E. Phytochemistry (Elsevier), 1988 , vol. 27, # 4 p. 1101 - 1104

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Abstract

Abstract Rooperol, a phenolic compound bearing the pentenyne moiety, has been synthesized from simple starting materials via a nine step synthesis. A crucial step in the synthesis involves protection of the phenolic groups as the tertbutyldimethylsilyl ether ...