C. Spino et al., THE DIENE-TRANSMISSIVE [4-CYCLOADDITION STRATEGY - STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF ADVANCED INTERMEDIATES TO QUASSINOIDS(2]), Journal of organic chemistry, 59(19), 1994, pp. 5596-5608
Complex intermediates to quassinoids', some optically active and conta
ining many functional groups, were synthesized via a diene-transmissiv
e Diels-Alder strategy. The stereochemistry of the key inter- and intr
amolecular cycloadditions was controlled by stereodefined groups on th
e preexisting C ring and on the tether.