Preparation of Optically Active Cyclohexenones: Chirons for the Lipophilic Moiety of Flowery- and Woody-like Odorant Ketones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/hlca.19930760135

Optically active 2,5,6,6- and 2,4,4,5-tetralkylcyclohex-2-en-1-ones ((+)-2a-d and (-)-5a-d), important building blocks for flowery- and woody-like odorants, have been prepared.Compounds (+)-2a-d and (-)-5a-d were obtained by ozonolysis of the correspondin