Synfacts 2006(10): 0978-0978  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-949315
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Calyxin L

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, John Cooksey
X. Tian, J. J. Jaber, S. D. Rychnovsky*
University of California, Irvine, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 September 2006 (online)

Significance

The Calyxin family of natural products is isolated from Alpinia blepharocalyx seeds and its members exhibit potent antiproliferative activity. The Rychnovsky group prepared several of the calyxins using a tandem Prins/Friedel-Crafts cyclization reaction.