Page 1. Facile Synthesis of (±)-Parahigginone Methyl Ether and (±)-Curcuphenol Zhen-Ting Du ( ), An-Pai Li ( ), Kun Peng ( ), Tong-Xing Wu ( ) and Xin-Fu Pan* ( ) State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China Using Grinard coupling as a key step, a facile synthetic approach to (±)-parahigginone methyl ether 1 and ...