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The enantioselective synthesis and determination of the absolute configurat
ion of the title compound (-)-1 has been carried out starting from karahana
lactone (+)-2 as an enantiopure building block. The structure was confirme
d by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and the optical purity of (-
)(1S,3R)-elegansidiol (-)-1 verified by chiral HPLC.