N. Secara, G. Duca, L. Vlad
Jan 3, 2011
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Chemistry Journal of Moldova
Abstract
The role of many hydroxy acids, such as malic, lactic, glycolic, citric, tartaric, in living organisms and plant metabolism is generally recognized. The interest in plant metabolites as sources of biologically active compounds appeared a long time ago. One of the leaders, due to its potential, in the series of natural sources is the dihydroxyfumaric acid 1. It is clear that discovery of the relationship between structures and properties can conduct to successful development of new effective antioxidants, drugs etc. In this paper, we tried to systemize literature data based on occurrence of dihydroxyfumaric acid 1 in biological sources and synthetic transformations into target products, which should be convenient (from our point of view) for the chemists. This approach is presented in our review.