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Convenient synthesis of drimenol and its oxidation with selenium dioxide
Kuchkova,Aricu,Dragalin,Vlad
, p. 2862 - 2865 (2004)
A convenient synthesis of drimenol by treatment of readily available drimane-8α, 11-diol 11-monoacetate with sulfuric acid in ethanol under mild conditions was developed. Oxidation of drimenol with selenium dioxide gives known drim-7-ene-9α, 11-diol and drim-7-ene-11,12-diol as the major products.