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Application of the intramolecular magnesium-ene reaction to the stereocontrolled total syntheses of (±)-12-acetoxysinularene and (±)-5-epi-12-acetoxysinularene

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Oppolzer; Tadhg Begley; Alison Ashcroft


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1984
Tongue
French
Weight
208 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


The sesquiterpene (+)-12-acetoxysinularene (1) and its C(5)-epimer 13 were each synthesized stereoselectively from the norbo&yl-iodoacetal 1 in 5%and 7% overall yields. The critical step 10 -t 11 involves the regio-and stereo--selective "magnesium-ene" reaction 5 -t 2.