M. Toyota et al., APHIDICOLIN SYNTHESIS .2. AN EXPEDITIOUS AND EFFICIENT FORMAL SYNTHESIS OF (+ -)-APHIDICOLIN/, Tetrahedron, 50(38), 1994, pp. 11153-11166
An expeditious and efficient formal total synthesis of an antiviral an
d antitumor tetracyclic diterpene aphidicolin (1) has been achieved. A
n intramolecular Heck reaction (7-->6) and an intramolecular Diels-Ald
er reaction (4-->3) were utilized for the key steps of the sequence.