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Natural Product Research
Formerly Natural Product Letters
Volume 33, 2019 - Issue 20
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Research Articles

Synthesis of natural product inulavosin via Ga(OTf)3-Catalyzed Hetero Diels–Alder Dimerization of salicyl alcohol derivative

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Pages 2911-2916 | Received 11 Apr 2018, Accepted 03 Aug 2018, Published online: 08 Oct 2018
 

Abstract

Inulavosin, a natural melanogenesis inhibitor, has been synthesized smoothly from readily available and inexpensive starting materials by using a Ga(OTf)3-catalyzed room temperature hetero Diels–Alder dimerization of salicyl alcohol derivative and a regioselective phenol monobromination as the key steps.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21672046, 21372054), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HIT.NSRIF.201701).

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