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Carotenoids and related polyenes. Part 6. Stereoselective synthesis of astaxanthin analogues and their antioxidant activities
Yamano,Sato,Watanabe,Namikawa,Miki,Ito
, p. 1862 - 1869 (2007/10/03)
Astaxanthin analogues having various lengths of polyene chains are stereoselectively synthesized and their singlet-oxygen-quenching activities are examined.
Technische Verfahren zur Synthese von Carotinoiden und verwandten Verbindungen aus Oxo-isophoron. I. Modifizierung der Kienzle-Mayer-Synthese von (3S,3'S)-Astaxanthin
Widmer, Erich,Zell, Reinhard,Lukac, Teodor,Casadei, Marco,Schoenholzer, Peter,Broger, Emil A.
, p. 2405 - 2418 (2007/10/02)
An efficient synthesis of (3S,3'S)-astaxanthin (1a) in high yield and optical purity starting from (4R,6R)-4-hydroxy-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexanone (4) is reported.The absolute configuration of 1a, previously derived from ORD. data, has been confirmed by X-ray analysis of 5, a derivate of 6-oxo-isophorone (2).The key features of the improved synthesis are the two-step conversion of 4 to the key intermediate (4S)-2,6,6-trimethyl-4-hydroxy-2-cyclohexen-1-one (14), a new method for the partial reduction of the sterically hindered triple bond of (S)-6-hydroxy-3-(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-3-penten-1-ynyl)-2,4,4-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one (32), and Wittig olefination of the dialdehyde 1,6-dimethyl-1,3,5-octatrienedial (38) using phosphonium salt 37 with a free hydroxyl group.
