J. Leonard et al., A SULFOLENE-BASED INTRAMOLECULAR DIELS-ALDER APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF MANZAMINE-A, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (17), 1994, pp. 2359-2361
Synthetic studies towards manzamine A are described. A tandem sulfolen
e SO2 extrusion intramolecular Diels-Alder cyclisation gave the C-5 ep
imer of the manzamine tricyclic ABC ring system via a C-5 to C-8 diene
bearing a C-5/C-6 Z-alkene.