A. Srikrishna et al., FIRST TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF (+ -)-MYLTAYL-4(12)-ENE AND SINGLE-CRYSTAL X-RAY STRUCTURE OF EXO-12-NORMYLTAYLAN-4-YL 4-NITROBENZOATE/, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (19), 1994, pp. 2259-2260
The total synthesis of the unusual sesquiterpene (+/-)-myltayl-4(12)-e
ne 3 starting from the readily available cyclogeraniol 5 and the singl
e-crystal X-ray structure of the 4-nitrobenzoate 12 of the noralcohol
11 are described.