Tetrahedron letters

Total synthesis of new porphyrins isolated from the coral sea demosponge corallistes sp.

RK Pandey, SH Leung, KM Smith

Index: Pandey, Ravindra K.; Leung, Sam H.; Smith, Kevin M. Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 44 p. 8093 - 8096

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Abstract

Abstract Three new metal-free porphyrins, corallistin B, corallistin C and corallistin E isolated from the demosponge Corallistes sp. were synthesized as methyl esters in excellent yield by using either the MacDonald or a, c-biladiene routes to porphyrins.