Gr. Labadie et al., STUDIES TOWARD THE TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF SAUDINE - SIMPLE AND STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF A MODEL CAGED KETAL BACKBONE, Synthetic communications, 26(24), 1996, pp. 4671-4684
The synthesis of the tetracyclic mainframe containing the caged ketali
c backbone of saudin was accomplished through a straight forward seque
nce starting from alpha-tetralone. The sequence included the stereosel
ective preparation of a key epoxy alcohol that allowed, by means of an
intramolecular radical cyclisation, the total control of the relative
stereochemistry of four consecutive chiral centers.