Journal of the American Chemical Society

Total Synthesis of the Cephalosporin Antibiotics. I. The Dihydrothiazine System of Cephalosporin Cc

G Stork, HT Cheung

Index: Stork,G.; Cheung,H.T. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1965 , vol. 87, p. 3783 - 3784

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Abstract

There are a considerable number of naturally occurring compounds which possess the p- benzoquinone m~ iety.~ An alkenylphenol has recently been shown to be a biosynthetic precursor of ubiquinone.'O It would be of interest to ascertain the role, if any, of the photorearrangement of alkyl-p-benzoquinones to hydroquinones in the biogenesis of naturally occurring quinones. The scope and mechanism of the photorearrangement ...