Biomimetic Preparation of the Racemic Modifications of the Stilbenolignan Aiphanol and Three Congeners

Satish Chand; Martin G. Banwell

doi:10.1071/CH07044

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Biomimetic Preparation of the Racemic Modifications of the Stilbenolignan Aiphanol and Three Congeners

Satish Chand ^A and Martin G. Banwell ^A ^B

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^A Research School of Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.

^B Corresponding author. Email: mgb@rsc.anu.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 60(4) 243-250 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH07044
Submitted: 13 February 2007 Accepted: 12 March 2007 Published: 26 April 2007

Abstract

A chromatographically separable mixture of the racemic modification, (±)-1, of the stilbenolignan (–)-aiphanol and congeners (±)-2–4 has been generated by a silver(I)-mediated and potentially biomimetic oxidative coupling of piceatannol (5) with sinapic alcohol (6).

Acknowledgments

We thank the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the former CSIRO Division of Molecular Science for financial support. Mr Tony Herlt is warmly acknowledged for his skillful assistance with the HPLC separations reported herein.

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Biomimetic Preparation of the Racemic Modifications of the Stilbenolignan Aiphanol and Three Congeners

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