Jg. Bendall et al., INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURES OF SOME NATURAL-PRODUCTS FROM THE NEEM TREE, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 46(12), 1993, pp. 1825-1843
Podocarpic acid (1) and totarol (2) have been converted into five dite
rpenoids reported to have been isolated from the Neem tree. The synthe
tic diterpenoids have been compared with the naturally occurring diter
penoids but only the structure of nimbidiol (23) has been confirmed. T
he structure for margosolone, which was reported as (19), has been rev
ised to (20) after synthesis of both (19) and (20).