An unusual reduction of a cross conjugated dienone. Stereoselective synthesis of (−)-Dictyolene

✍ Scribed by Andrew E. Greene

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 204 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)85882-2

✦ Synopsis

Among the known procedures for effecting the reduction of an enone & to the corresponding transposed olefin &&, the recently described tosylhydrazinecatecholborane-sodium acetate method is potentially one of the most useful due to the mild reaction conditions and the certitude concerning the eventual position of the double bond.

2 In a previous communication3 we demonstrated the 8