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Biomimetic Preparation of the Racemic Modifications of the Stilbenolignan Aiphanol and Three Congeners

Satish Chand ^A and Martin G. Banwell ^A ^B

^A Research School of Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
^B Corresponding author. Email: mgb@rsc.anu.edu.au

Abstract

A chromatographically separable mixture of the racemic modification, (±)-1, of the stilbenolignan (–)-aiphanol and congeners (±)-2–4 has been generated by a silver(I)-mediated and potentially biomimetic oxidative coupling of piceatannol (5) with sinapic alcohol (6).

Australian Journal of Chemistry 60(4) 243–250 doi:10.1071/CH07044
Submitted: 13 February 2007 Accepted: 12 March 2007 Published: 26 April 2007