Course of the condensation between 5,7-dihydroxycoumarin and citral: a reinvestigation of the constitution of bruceol and deoxybruceol from Eriostemon brucei
Abstract
Although deoxybruceol is derived by heating the chromen (7) in pyridine, X-ray work shows that rearrangement has occurred and its structure must be revised from (2) to (3), whilst that of bruceol is sustained as (1); both (2) and (3) are synthesised by an alternative route.