The conversion of podocarpic acid to nimbiol

✍ Scribed by Roy H. Bible Jr.

• Book ID: 104249792
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)99295-0

✦ Synopsis

NIMBIOL' , a compound isolated from the trunk bark of Melia azadirachta Lilln., has been assigned 2-3 the structure Ia. Ia. R=H b. R=CHs We have converted podocarpic acid to compounds having structures Ia and Ib and have found them to be identical with nimbi01 and nimbi01 methyl ether1 thus confirming the complete structures assigned3 by Choudhuri, Khastgir and Sengupta.