General enantioselective approach for the synthesis of Pterocarpans

ORGN 870

Jacob Y. Cha, jcha@chem.ucsb.edu and Thomas Pettus, pettus@chem.ucsb.edu. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510
A highly convergent strategy utilizing readily available salicylaldehyde starting materials was investigated in an enantioselective synthesis of pterocarpans. The flexibility of the approach allows rapid access to a myriad of substituted benzopyran analogues and related molecules asymmetrically.

 

Heterocycles and Aromatics
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 14 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 135, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006