Issue 20, 2013
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Isolation, structure determination and synthesis of a trichlorodihydroxybibenzyl from a terrestrial plant†

R. Alan Aitken,*a   Jaufret Bouquet,a   Julia Frank,b   Anna L. G. Gidlow,a   Yomica L. Powder,b   Russel S. Ramsewak*b  and  William F. Reynoldsc  

* Corresponding authors

a EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, UK
E-mail: raa@st-and.ac.uk
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b Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
E-mail: Russel.Ramsewak@sta.uwi.edu
Fax: + 1 868 645 3771
Tel: + 1 868 662 2002

c Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6, Canada

Abstract

A new natural product isolated from the leaves of the plant Anthurium aripoense found in Trinidad is shown by spectroscopic analysis and total synthesis to be 2′,5,6′-trichloro-2,3′-dihydroxybibenzyl, a structure unprecedented in a higher plant.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA41325J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Jan 2013
Accepted
21 Mar 2013
First published
22 Mar 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 7230-7232

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Isolation, structure determination and synthesis of a trichlorodihydroxybibenzyl from a terrestrial plant

R. A. Aitken, J. Bouquet, J. Frank, A. L. G. Gidlow, Y. L. Powder, R. S. Ramsewak and W. F. Reynolds, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 7230 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41325J

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