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Total Synthesis and Biological Activity of the Arachidonic Acid Metabolite Hemiketal E2


AUTHORS

Boer R.E. , Giménez-Bastida J.A. , Boutaud O. , Jana S. , Schneider C. , Sulikowski G.A. . Org. Lett.. 2018 6 19; 13(20). 4020-4022

ABSTRACT

The total synthesis of hemiketal E2 (HKE2) has been accomplished using a gold(I)-mediated cycloisomerization followed by oxidation of the enol ether product to introduce a unique keto-hemiketal, the core structure of HKE2. Synthetic hemiketal E2 reproduced biosynthetically derived HKE2 in the inhibition of human platelet aggregation.