Sugar and spice... The total synthesis of the rare but potent anticancer natural product (-)-episilvestrol and its 5‴ epimer (-)-silvestrol was accompushed from D-glucose, naringenin, and methyl cinnamate (see scheme). The key steps of the sequence were inspired by the possible biogenesis of these compounds. © 2007 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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El Sous, M., Khoo, M. L., Holloway, G., Owen, D., Scammells, P. J., & Rizzacasa, M. A. (2007). Total synthesis of (-)-episilvestrol and (-)-silvestrol. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 46(41), 7835–7838. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200702700
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