TY - JOUR A1 - Huang, Guozheng A1 - Schramm, Simon A1 - Heilmann, Jörg A1 - Biedermann, David A1 - Kren, Vladimír A1 - Decker, Michael T1 - Unconventional application of the Mitsunobu reaction: Selective flavonolignan dehydration yielding hydnocarpins T2 - Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry N2 - Various Mitsunobu conditions were investigated for a series of flavonolignans (silybin A, silybin B, isosilybin A, and silychristin A) to achieve either selective esterification in position C-23 or dehydration in a one-pot reaction yielding the biologically important enantiomers of hydnocarpin D, hydnocarpin and isohydnocarpin, respectively. This represents the only one-pot semi-synthetic method to access these flavonolignans in high yields. KW - Mitsunobu KW - dehydration KW - flavonoid KW - hydnocarpin KW - silybin Y1 - 2016 UR - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16098 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-160986 VL - 12 ER -