Application of the Saegusa Oxidation to Trimethylsilyl Ethers of Diosphenols

Moonsun Kim, Laura A. Applegate, Oee‐Sook Park, Sundar Vasudevan, David S. Watt

Synthetic Communications · 1990 · 16 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Abstract The Saegusa oxidation of trimethylsilyl ethers of diosphenols provided enediones and served as a key reaction in the conversion of δ2-picrasin B to 1β-hydroxy-12-methoxy-picrasa-3,12-diene-2,11-dione, a model for the A ring functionality of many guassinoids.

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