From levoglucosenone

Witczak, Z. J. Chhabra, R. Chen, H. Xie, X. Q., Thiosugars.2. A novel approach to thiodisaccharides - The synthesis of 3-deoxy-4-thiocellobiose from levoglucosenone. 

K. Matsumoto, T. Ebata, K. Koseki, H. Kawakami, and H. Matsushita, Synthesis of D-allosan from levoglucosenone, Heterocycles, 32 (1991) 2225-2240. 

Our laboratory recently synthesized isolevoglucosenone directly from levoglucosenone (21) through four steps approach utilizing the key step of 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement of an intermediate allylic selenide. 

Mori, M, Chuman, T, Kato, K, Mori, K, A stereoselective synthesis of natural (45,65,75)-serricomin, the sex pheromone of cigaret beetle, from levoglucosenone, Tetrahedron Lett., 23, 4593-4596, 1982. 

Witczak, Z J, Synthesis of C-glycosyl compounds and other natural-products from levoglucosenone. Pure Appl. Chem., 66, 2189-2192, 1994. 

Isobe, M, Fukami, N, Nishikawa, T, Goto, T, Synthesis of chiral cyclohexanes from levoglucosenone and its application to an indole alkaloid reserpine, Heterocydes, 25, 521-532, 1987. 

Blattner R, Furneaux RH, Mason JM, Tyler PC (1994) Synthesis of the herbicide 1,6-anhydro-4-0-benzyl-3-deoxy-2-0-methyl-/i-D-ribohex-opyranose and analogues from Levoglucosenone and Levoglucosan. In Witczak ZJ (ed) Levoglucosenone and Levoglucosans Chemistry and Application. ATL Press Science Publishers, Mt. Prospect, IL, p 43... 

The previously reported alkene 335 (from L-glucose, vol. 28, p. 373) has now been elaborated to l2-e/ /-prostaglandin F2a- The C35-C43 subunit of dolastatin G (336) has been prepared from levoglucosenone. ... 

Some interesting examples of levoglucosenone s application in the synthesis of natural products and rare carbohydrates have been reported (58-81). Indeed, levoglucosenone has been used in the synthesis of (+)-multistriatin (58,72-73), Prelog-Djerassi lactonic acid (58,59) md (-)-a//o-yohimbane (61) The synthesis of indole alkaloid reserpine (61), and serricomin (58), as well as tetrodotoxin (53,62) were also reported from levoglucosenone or its functionalized derivatives and was reviewed earlier by us (1). 

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