Practical total synthesis of (.+-.)-strigol

…, HS Bevinakatti, E Kennedy, J Hathaway

Index: Brooks, Dee W.; Bevinakatti, H. S.; Kennedy, Eileen; Hathaway, Jim Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 5 p. 628 - 632

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Abstract

Strigol (1) was isolated in small amounts from root exudates of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and identified by Cook and co-w0rkers. l Strigol was found to be a potent seed germination stimulant for striga species and similar parasitic plants in the genus Orobanche. 2 It is presently the most potent seed germination stimulant known for witchweed, which causes considerable economic loss acting upon important crops of the Gramineae family ...