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Synthesis of mitosane 1 in optically pure form is reported. A retrosyntheti
c plan that proceeds through racemic allylic alcohol 3 was carried out. Thi
s intermediate served as a test substrate for a rapid screen of a small lib
rary (152 members) of peptide-based kinetic resolution catalysts. Peptide 9
was found to effect kinetic resolution with k(rel) = 27.Alcohol (-)-3 was
then converted to optically pure (-)-1 in eight steps.