Volume 33, Issue 6 pp. 683-687
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Synthesis of (R)-(−)-Muscone from (R)-5-Bromo-4-methylpentanoate: A Chiron Approach

Junwei Shen

Junwei Shen

CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

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Yong Shi

Corresponding Author

Yong Shi

CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author
Weisheng Tian

Corresponding Author

Weisheng Tian

CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author
First published: 09 March 2015
Citations: 14

Abstract

A synthesis of (R)-muscone (1), a valuable musk odorant, is presented. The stereogenic center of muscone was introduced from methyl (R)-5-bromo-4-methylpentanoate (5), a chiral pool molecule developed in our group, and the macrocyclic ring was prepared by ring-closing metathesis (RCM) reaction.

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