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A two-step method for the chemoselective reduction of the trisubstituted double bond of an α-isoprene unit in plant polyprenols was developed for the preparation of racemic terpenols of the dolichol series of mammals.
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Published inIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1491–1492, August, 2000.
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Veselovsky, V.V., Lozanova, A.V. A new version of the conversion of plant polyprenols into (±)-terpenols of the dolichol series. Russ Chem Bull 49, 1485–1486 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02495106
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