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Synthesis 2010(9): 1550-1556
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218695
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218695
PAPER
© Georg Thieme Verlag
Stuttgart ˙ New York
A Straightforward Diastereoselective Synthesis and Evaluation of Climacostol, A Natural Product with Anticancer Activities
Further Information
Received
28 December 2009
Publication Date:
09 March 2010 (online)
Publication History
Publication Date:
09 March 2010 (online)

Abstract
On the basis of continued interest in plant-derived natural products as anticancer agents, a shorter and more efficient synthesis of climacostol is reported. This compound showed an anticancer activity better than that of the natural product. The improved potency and selectivity can be due to the absence of traces of the undesired E-isomer present in the natural climacostol. Furthermore, the versatile strategy developed for this simple molecule such as climacostol could aid in the synthesis of other more complex natural products.
Key words
bioorganic chemistry - C-C bond formation - diastereoselectivity - natural products - protecting groups - Wittig reaction
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