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Total synthesis of naturally configured pyrrhoxanthin, a carotenoid butenolide from plankton
Burghart, Johen,Brueckner, Reinhard
scheme or table, p. 7664 - 7668 (2009/04/11)
A carotenoid from the chemical kitchen: Two sequential Stille couplings of an unsymmetric distannane building block with a bromoolefin and a bromoalkyne terminated a highly convergent synthesis of the title compound, pyrrhoxanthin (see scheme).
Stereocontrolled total synthesis of a polyfunctional carotenoid, peridinin
Furuichi, Noriyuki,Hara, Hirokazu,Osaki, Takashi,Nakano, Masayuki,Mori, Hajime,Katsumura, Shigeo
, p. 7949 - 7959 (2007/10/03)
Peridinin, which was isolated from the planktonic algae dinoflagellates causing red tides, is a highly oxidized carotenoid containing an allene and a characteristic (Z)-γ-ylidenebutenolide function in the main conjugated polyene chain in addition to funct
