The Deoxygenation and Isomerization of A
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Charles W. Jefford; Maria G. H. Vicente; Yvan Jacquier; France Favarger; Jiri Ma
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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German
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## Abstract The treatment of artemisinin (1) and β‐artemether (6) with Zn dissolving in AcOH for a few hours results in mono‐deoxygenation giving deoxyartemisinin (5) and deoxy‐β‐artemether (7), respectively, as the sole product. In contrast, submission of 1 to FeCl~2~ · 4 H~2~O in MeCN at room tem