Ayers Sloan, Sneden Albert T
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 842006, Richmond, Virginia 23284-2006, USA.
J Nat Prod. 2004 Feb;67(2):221-4. doi: 10.1021/np0303613.
The iridoid caudatoside A (2) was synthesized in seven steps from the naturally occurring iridoid 5-deoxypulchelloside I (1) using a straightforward series of protection and deprotection procedures to introduce the requisite C-6 cinnamoyl ester.