Models for Taxol Biosynthesis: SeO 2 Oxidation of Taxadiene

Author: Huang Qiulong   Pennington James   Williams Howard   Scott A.  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 0039-7911

Source: Synthetic Communications, Vol.36, Iss.18, 2006-09, pp. : 2577-2585

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Abstract

Together with the expected mono‐oxidized taxa‐4(20),11(12)‐diene‐5‐ol ( 1 ) and taxa‐4(5),11,20‐diene‐20‐ol ( 2 ), a new taxane skeleton, 3,12‐cyclotaxane ( 3 ), was obtained from chemical oxidation of taxadiene by selenium dioxide/t‐butylhydroperoxide.