A. Srikrishna et al., A ring closing metathesis based approach for the spiroannulation of cyclopentanes and cyclohexanes. Formal synthesis of (+/-)-acorones, SYNLETT, (12), 2001, pp. 1986-1988
An efficient ring closing metathesis (RCM.) reaction based approach was dev
eloped for the spiroannulation of cyclopentanes and cyclohexanes and its ut
ility demonstrated in the formal synthesis of the spirosesquiterpenes acoro
nes.