Pm. Demin et al., Total synthesis of 20-hydroxyhepoxilins A(3), new metabolites of the hepoxilin family of eicosanoids, BIOORG KHIM, 24(10), 1998, pp. 778-786
An enantiodirected total synthesis of 20-hydroxyhepoxilins A(3), new eicosa
noids of lipoxygenase metabolism of arachidonic acid, was performed. The sy
nthetic samples were found to be identical to the major metabolite formed o
n incubation of (8S)-hepoxilin A(3) with human neutrophils, which demonstra
ted that it has the structure of (8S)-20-hydroxy-HxA(3).