Y. Kara et al., SYNTHESIS OF NEW CONDURITOL ANALOGS DERIVED FROM BICYCLOOCTATRIENE - BIS-HOMO-CONDURITOL-D AND BIS-HOMO-CONDURITOL-F, Tetrahedron letters, 35(20), 1994, pp. 3349-3352
The first synthesis of conduritol analogues 2 and 3 is reported. The k
ey compound 7 reacted with KMnO4 and m-chloroperbenzoic acid in a ster
eospecific manner to give syn-addition products 9 and 10, respectively
. Zinc-dust elimination of 10 followed by epoxide opening resulted in
the formation of 3b. The free tetrol 3 was obtained by ammonolysis. Th
e other tetrol isomer 2 was obtained by similar synthetic steps.