Tetrahedron Letters, volume 25, issue 8, pages 803-806
A vicarious aromatic substitution approach to aklavinone from chrysazin
Raymond A Murphy
1
,
Michael P. Cava
1
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 1984-01-01
Journal:
Tetrahedron Letters
scimago Q3
wos Q3
SJR: 0.323
CiteScore: 3.5
Impact factor: 1.5
ISSN: 00404039, 18733581
Organic Chemistry
Drug Discovery
Biochemistry
Abstract
The cheap, available dye-intermediate 1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone (2) is converted efficiently to a useful aklavinone precursor (3). A Mitsunobu alkylation-Claisen rearrangement sequence and an unprecedented vicarious aromatic substitution on an anthraquinone are employed as key steps.
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