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The objective of this project has been to find the active principles in the medicinal plant, Rollinia mucosa (Jacq.) Baill., a tropical Annonaceous fruit tree that has been used for the primitive medical treatment of tumors in the West Indies and Indonesia. The phytochemistry of…

Upon treatment with a palladium catalyst and hydrogen gas in the presence of caesiumcarbonate, a wide range of exomethylenic allylic alcohols were found to afford theircorresponding trisubstituted isomers. Although hydrogenation was an unavoidablecompeting pathway, careful monit…