The carbonyl epoxide rearrangement. A chiral synthesis of the mus musculus pheromone

The first practical method for asymmetric epoxidation

Tsutomu Katsuki, K. Barry Sharpless · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1980 · 2.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry +5

Asymmetric epoxidation provides shortest routes to four chiral epoxy alcohols which are key intermediates in syntheses of methymycin, erythromycin, leukotriene C-1, and disparlure

Bryant E. Rossiter, Tsutomu Katsuki, K. Barry Sharpless · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1981 · 333 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +7

Identification of a testosterone-dependent unique volatile constituent of male mouse urine: 7-exo-ethyl-5-methyl-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]-3-octene

Miloš V. Novotný, Francis J. Schwende, D. Wiesler et al. · Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences · 1984 · 73 citations

Medicine, Endocrinology, Toxicology +9

Carbonyl epoxide rearrangements. Synthesis of brevicomin and related [3.2.1]bicyclic systems

Harry H. Wasserman, Elliot H. Barber · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1969 · 52 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry +11

Remarkable stereocontrol in the addition of an anion to an α- alkoxyaldehyde by encouraging or discouraging internal complexation. Applications to brief syntheses of the (house mouse) pheromone and -brevicomin

M. Bhupathy, Theodore Cohen · Tetrahedron Letters · 1985 · 45 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +10