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SUBMITTER: Little A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3367002 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Organic letters 20120523 11
Efficient syntheses of the highly substituted benzophenone graphisin A and the xanthone sydowinin B are described. Key steps involve aryl anion addition to substituted benzaldehyde derivatives, subsequent methyl ester installation, and dehydrative cyclization. Oxidation of graphisin A led to a spirodienone derived from a highly substituted benzoquinone intermediate. ...[more]