Acid-catalyzed Epimerization of Kobophenol A to Carasinol B.docVIP

Molecules 2008, 13, 938-942 molecules ISSN 1420-3049 ? 2008 by MDPI Communication Acid-catalyzed Epimerization of Kobophenol A to Carasinol B Kejun Cheng, Gaolin Liang and Changqi Hu * Department of Chemistry of Natural Drugs, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China; E-mails: chengkejun@ (for K. C.), stanfordliang@ (for G. L.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel: (+86)-21 Fax: (+86)-21- E-mail: cqhu@ Received: 13 March 2008; in revised form: 4 April 2008 / Accepted: 4 April 2008 / Published: 19 April 2008 Abstract: The c