Abstract
Abstract Carvones produced by a wide variety of plants represent a group of inexpensive and abundant starting materials for fine chemical synthesis. A family of chiral monoterpenes, which incorporate carvones due to their natural chirality and advanced skeleton, serve as a feedstock for asymmetric synthesis of bioactive natural products. Notably, nature produces carvones in both enantiomeric series, which favorably compares with other natural sources of chirality such as amino acids and sugars and occurring predominantly in only one enantiomeric form. This review represents a comprehensive account of enantiomeric carvones with up-to-date coverage of the relevant literature for the past decade. The chapters are arranged in a manner to reflect the main strategies for the use of these compounds in stereoselective synthesis of the target bioactive natural products: from the chemical transformations where the original skeleton remains intact, to the reactions leading toward a gradual fragmentation of the carvone framework.
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