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A CONVENIENT SYNTHESIS OF FECAPENTAENE-12 BY THE HORNER-WITTIG REACTION
Wit, P. P. de,Schaik, T. A. M. van,Gen, A. van der
, p. 369 - 370 (2007/10/02)
A synthesis of racemic fecapentaene-12 and other glyceryl enol ethers has been developed based on the Horner-Wittig reaction.Coupling of the anion of the glyceryl substituted phosphine oxide 7 with unsaturated aldehydes 9a-c provided, after treatment with base, the silyl protected glyceryl enol ethers 11a-c.The silyl groups were easily removed and mixtures of E and Z isomers of glyceryl enol ethers 12a-c were obtained.The isomers could be separated upon washing with ether/hexane.
