A. Srikrishna et D. Vijaykumar, STEREOCONTROLLED SYNTHESIS OF (+ -)-ALPHA-PINGUISENE AND (+/-)-PINGUISENOL/, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (22), 1997, pp. 3295-3296
Total synthesis of (+/-)-alpha-pinguisene 1 and (+/-)-pinguisenol 2, e
mploying an orthoester Claisen rearrangement and an intramolecular dia
zo ketone cyclopropanation reaction for the stereospecific constructio
n of vicinal quaternary carbon atoms, is described.