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Synfacts 2010(2): 0137-0137  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219026
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of ent-Dioxepandehydrothyrsiferol

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski
J. Tanuwidjaja, S.-S. Ng, T. F. Jamison*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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21 January 2010 (online)

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Significance

Dioxepandehydrothyrsiferol is a red alga metabolite derived from squalene. The unusual trans-anti-trans topography was constructed via a bromonium-initiated haloetherification cascade.