| Abstract: | A successful total synthesis of a biologically active pigment from plants of the Boraginaceae family was carried out with naphthazarine as the starting material, and using the 1,4,5,8-tetramethoxynaphthalene, the corresponding 2-vinyl derivative and its epoxide or a cyclopropane adduct with diazoacetic ester at the key stages. In the course of developing the scheme of the synthesis of shikalkin, its three analogs were obtained, differing in the nature of the monoterpenoid side chain.For preliminary report, see 1].Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022 Vladivostok. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1901–1910, August, 1992. |
