Tetrahedron Letters

Unusual long chain ketones of algal origin.

JA Rechka, JR Maxwell

Index: Rechka, J. A.; Maxwell, J. R. Tetrahedron Letters, 1988 , vol. 29, # 21 p. 2599 - 2600

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Abstract

Abstract Recent reports have suggested the use of the relative abundances of long chain (n- C37) alken-2-ones (1, 2, and 3) in Quaternary marine sediments as a palaeoclimate indicator 1. Here we report the synthesis of these ketones with all-E and all-Z ...