Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

684. Studies in the synthesis of terpenes. Part II. The preparation of an intermediate for the synthesis of diterpenes

JD Cocker, TG Halsall

Index: Cocker; Halsall Journal of the Chemical Society, 1957 , p. 3441,3444

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Citation Number: 16

Abstract

RECENTLY we isolated a new bicyclic diterpene, labdanolic acid (I), l! from gum labdanum. A key step in the structure determination was the degradation of labdanolic acid to the C,, acid (11), previously obtained from marrubiin3 and ambrein. 4 Little has been published on