P. Martres et al., SHORT AND PRACTICAL SYNTHESIS OF (-AMBERKETAL AND (-)EPI-8-AMBERKETALFROM NATURAL (-)-SCLAREOL()), Tetrahedron letters, 34(50), 1993, pp. 8081-8084
Starting from natural (-)sclareol(4) (+)-amberketal (9) and (-)-epi-8-
amberketal(10) have been synthesized regioselectively in 4 (24% overal
l yield) and 5 steps (7% overall yield) respectively by passing throug
h the same unpurified key intermediate 7b.