title: A journey towards natural licochalcone E: from isolation to asymmetric total synthesis.
abstract: Due to the promising biological activities of licochalcone E first isolated from Glycyrrhiza inflate, several synthetic efforts have been made to obtain this valuable natural product in a large scale. In this issue, Cheon et al. (Liu et al., 2011) accomplished the stereoselective synthesis of (R)-(+)-licochalcone E. This report covers licochalcone E from isolation to the stereoselective total synthesis.
authors: College of Pharmacy and Division of Life & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea. ryuj@ewha.ac.kr
authors: Jae-Sang
authors: JS
authors: Ryu
mesh_terms: D047188:Chalcones / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D023303:Oxazolidinones / Q000737:chemistry*; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D047188:Chalcones; D023303:Oxazolidinones; C520147:licochalcone E; D010165:Palladium