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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Chem. 2015 Jan 12;7(2):146–152. doi: 10.1038/nchem.2141

Figure 1. The vicinal dichloride motif in natural products.

Figure 1

a, Selected chlorosulfolipids (with vicinal dichloride motifs highlighted). b, Most dichlorinations of alkenes (and all of those that are catalytic) exhibit anti-stereospecificity, and no generally applicable, direct syn-stereospecific alkene dichlorination has been reported. Such a method would complement current chlorination strategies employed in the synthesis of polychlorinated natural products such as the chlorosulfolipids.