SYNTHETIC STUDIES ON SPINOSYN-A - CONVENIENT ENANTIOSELECTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF A SUITABLY FUNCTIONALIZED TRANS,ANTI,CIS-DECAHYDRO-AS-INDACENE INTERMEDIATE VIA [3.3] SIGMATROPY AND DOUBLE CONFIGURATIONAL INVERSION
La. Paquette et al., SYNTHETIC STUDIES ON SPINOSYN-A - CONVENIENT ENANTIOSELECTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF A SUITABLY FUNCTIONALIZED TRANS,ANTI,CIS-DECAHYDRO-AS-INDACENE INTERMEDIATE VIA [3.3] SIGMATROPY AND DOUBLE CONFIGURATIONAL INVERSION, Tetrahedron letters, 38(8), 1997, pp. 1271-1274
An enantioselective route to the decahydro-as-indacene 15 is described
. Anionic oxy-Cope rearrangement of alcohol 5 initiates the sequence,
which capitalizes on thermodynamics to control ultimate elaboration of
the four key stereogenic centers resident in the several intermediate
s. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.