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SUBMITTER: Homer JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8155563 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20210415 9
The development of the first enantioselective <i>para</i>-Claisen rearrangement has been achieved. Using a chiral aluminum Lewis acid, illicinole is rearranged to give (-)-illicinone A (er 87:13), which can then be converted into more complex <i>Illicium</i>-derived prenylated phenylpropanoids. The absolute configurations of the natural products (+)-cycloillicinone and (-)-illicarborene A have been determined, and our results cast doubt on the enantiopurity of the natural samples. ...[more]