Ja. Haugan, TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF C-31-METHYL KETONE APOCAROTENOIDS .4. FIRST TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF (3S,5R,6R)-PARACENTRONE, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (18), 1997, pp. 2731-2737
Optically active (all-E)-(3S,5R,6R)-paracentrone has been prepared by
total synthesis for the first time, in 3% overall yield over 13 linear
steps from the readily available (4R,6R)-actinol, (2E)-3-methylpent-2
-en-4-yn-1-ol, (all-E)-2,7-dimethylocta-2,4,6-triene-1,8-dial and 1,1-
dimethoxypropan-2-one. All spectral data for synthetic (all-E)-(3S,5R,
6R)-paracentrone are in accordance with data reported for the natural
compound.