Sesquiterpenes, V. The stereospecific synthesis of pseudoguaianolide sesquiterpenes

✍ Scribed by J.B. Hendrickson; Camille Ganter; Douglas Dorman; Helmut Link

• Book ID: 104222918
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 278 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)89728-2

✦ Synopsis

The pseudoguaianolides constitute a major family of sesquiterpenes, over thirty having been recorded to date. (1) They also afford a singular synthetic challenge in that most members (I) have six asymmetric centers, all grouped on a cycloheptane ring, with both cis-and trans-lactones being represented and C-5 and C-7 bearing identical configurations throughout the