The enantiodivergent total synthesis of natural and unnatural enantiomers of theobroxide

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)00131-U

Both enantiomers of theobroxide, a potato micro-tuber inducing substance isolated from Lasiodiplodia theobromae, have been synthesized from a common chiral building block serving as a chiral equivalent of 1,4-dihydroxy-2,5-cyclohexadiene. The synthesis has verified the proposed structure and the absolute configuration.