| Abstract: | Bisabolane sesquiterpenes are a big family of naturally occurring products with significantly biological activities most of which can be separated from Chinese traditional medicines. Parahigginone (1a) was firstly separated as a bisabolane by Shen Y. C. et al. from the Taiwan marine sponges in 1999, 1] it shows very promising antitumor activity.1] As far as we know, there is no synthetic report on it. Curcuphenol (2a) was a cytotoxic sesquiterpene which was first discovered in Pseudopterogorgia rigida2,3] which has been synthesized by Frank2] and Tsutomu4] before. In order to study the relationship between the structures and the activities, we have synthesized parahiggi none methyl ether (1) and curcuphenol methyl ether (2) in six steps successfully, and the stereoselective synthesis is carried out in progress. |
