U. Groth et al., STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF STEROIDS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS .5. SYNTHTHESIS OF (+ -)-CHOKOL-A BY A TANDEM MICHAEL-ADDITION DIECKMANN CYCLIZATION/, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, (9), 1994, pp. 885-890
A total synthesis of (+/-)-chokol A (rac-12) was accomplished in five
steps by starting from the alpha,beta-unsaturated ester (E)-2 in an ov
erall yield of 24%. The key step of this synthesis is the tandem conju
gate addition/Dieckmann cyclization of the cuprate derived from vinyl
bromide 9 with the alpha,beta-unsaturated ester (E)-2.