Synfacts 2008(6): 0552-0552  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1072609
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Synthesis of (-)-Perrottetinene

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, Arndt W. Schmidt
Y. Song, S. Hwang, P. Gong, D. Kim, S. Kim*
Seoul National University, Korea and Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Liaoning, P. R. of China
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
21 May 2008 (online)

Significance

(-)-Perrottetinene exhibits an unusual cis-tetrahydrocannabinol skeleton. The existence of this molecule was predicted in the late 1980s; however, the cis-fusion in the terpenoid ring was not expected.