Rw. Bates et al., Total synthesis of the cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitor 1233A via a (pi-allyl)tricarbonyliron lactone complex, J CHEM S P1, (14), 1999, pp. 1917-1925
The total synthesis of the P-lactone cholesterol synthase inhibitor 1233A (
1) is described employing the oxidative decomplexation of a (pi-allyl)trica
rbonyliron lactone (2) as the key synthetic step.