Formal Synthesis of Vinigrol and Efforts Towards the Total Synthesis of Digitoxigenin

Vinigrol was isolated in 1987 from the fungal strain Virgaria nigra F-5408 by Hashimoto and co-workers. This compound was identified as having antihypertensive and platelet aggregation properties as well as being recognized as a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor. Aside from its interesting biological...

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Main Author: Poulin, Jason
Language:en
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23944