Abstract: | A convenient synthesis of drimenol by treatment of readily available drimane-8 , 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-9 , 11-diol and drim-7-ene-11,12-diol as the major products.__________Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2745–2748, December, 2004. |