作者:Zhu‐Ping Xiao、Huan‐Qiu Li、Jia‐Yu Xue、Lei Shi、Hai‐Liang Zhu
DOI:10.1080/00397910701796725
日期:2008.1.1
Tectorigenin, isolated from the rhizomes of Belamcanda chinensis, shows a wide variety of biological activities. The interest in its biological activities has been matched by a corresponding interest in its synthesis. We herein reported a convenient synthesis of tectorigenin in good yield. The starting material, 2,4,6-trihydroxyanisole, gave the intermediate 2,4,4',6-tetrahydroxy-3-methoxydeoxybenzoin by a Hoesch reaction with 4-hydroxyphenylacetonitrile. The intermediate was then reacted with methanesulfonyl chloride to produce a mixture of tectorigenin and psi-tectorigenin. Purification of tectorigenin was unnecessary at this stage as psi-tectorigenin in the mixture was isomerized to tectorigenin by refluxing in n-BuOH in the presence of K2CO3.