A. Srikrishna et al., A SIMPLE STRATEGY FOR SPIROCYCLOPENTANNULLATION OF CYCLIC-KETONES - FORMAL TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF (+ -)-ACORONE/, Tetrahedron letters, 37(10), 1996, pp. 1683-1686
A general and simple methodology for spirocyclopentannulation of cycli
c ketones (or 4,4-disubstituted cyclopentenones from acyclic ketones)
and its application in the synthesis of the spirodienone 7 via a proch
iral precursor constituting a formal total synthesis of (+/-)-acorone
(6), are described.