Use of the plant Bellardia trixago for the enantiospecific synthesis of odorant products.

An easy procedure to obtain extracts enriched in trixagol monomalonylesther (1) from aerial parts of the plant Belladia trixago chemotype Trix was developed. Preparation of (+)-dihydro-gamma-ionone (4) was carried out directly from the extracts with good yields by selective oxidation. Other interesting odorant products as alpha-ambrinol (5), ambraldehyde (6) and the tricyclic compound 7 were synthesized very efficiently using (4) as intermediate.