Total synthesis and absolute configuration of pseudosemiglabrin, a platelet aggregation antagonist, and its diastereomer semiglabrin

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00122a011

A general approach to the synthesis of the flavone-furo[2,3-b]furan ring system present in numerous biologically-active secondary metabolites of Tephrosia sp. has been developed and applied in one racemic synthesis and two asymmetric syntheses of four mem