P. Langlois et al., TRANSANNULAR DIELS-ALDER CYCLIZATION OF SUBSTITUTED 13-MEMBERED TRIENES - AN APPROACH TO THE BCD[6.6.5] RINGS OF THE 14-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROIDS, Canadian journal of chemistry, 74(2), 1996, pp. 129-143
The transannular Diels-Alder strategy has been applied to three 13-mem
bered macrocyclic trienes whose characteristics are: a cis-trans diene
and a cis methoxymethyl enol ether as the dienophile. The successful
trials led to three 6.6.5 tricyles having a trans-syn-cis geometry exa
ctly as in the B.C.D. rings of the 14 beta-hydroxysteroids.