406160-49-4Relevant articles and documents
Elucidation of the Sharpless epoxidation of zerumbol
Kitayama, Takashi,Furuya, Atsushi,Moriyama, Chiyuki,Masuda, Tomomi,Fushimi, Sachiko,Yonekura, Yuji,Kubo, Haruko,Kawai, Yasushi,Sawada, Seiji
, p. 2311 - 2316 (2006)
The Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation of (+)-zerumbol, itself obtained by the reduction of zerumbone 1 gave only all-erythro bisepoxide 3 which has five stereogenic centers. Chiral monoepoxide 4, which decomposed easily under acidic or high-temperature con