Stereospecific Synthesis of 3-Oxo-α-bourbonene and the Cisoid Isomer for Structural Determination of the Toxic Component of Lansium domesticum

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/bcsj.61.2672

The cis-cisoid-cis isomer of 3-oxo-α-bourbonene, (1), the original structure proposed for the toxic principle of Lansium domesticum, has been prepared from (-)-mintsulfide.Neither spectral data of 1 nor of 3-oxo-α-bourbonene itself, derived from β-bourbonene, are not identical with those of the toxic component.