Synfacts 2008(6): 0561-0561  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1072607
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of (3R,9R,10R)-Panaxytriol

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, Zofia Komsta
E. J. Cho, D. Lee*
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
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Publikationsdatum:
21. Mai 2008 (online)

Significance

Panaxytriol was isolated from the Eastern Asian plant Panax ginseng. It shows inhibitory activity against a very broad range of human tumor cell lines. The focal step of the synthesis is a relay metathesis and metallotropic [1,3]-shift in D followed by cross-metathesis with alkene E.