RADICAL-INDUCED CYCLOPROPANE FRAGMENTATION-H-ABSTRACTION-CYCLIZATION CASCADE - SYNTHESIS OF CARBOCYCLIC SYSTEMS CONTAINING BRIDGEHEAD METHYL-GROUPS

Authors
CHAMBOURNIER G KRISHNAMURTHY V RAWAL VH
Citation
G. Chambournier et al., RADICAL-INDUCED CYCLOPROPANE FRAGMENTATION-H-ABSTRACTION-CYCLIZATION CASCADE - SYNTHESIS OF CARBOCYCLIC SYSTEMS CONTAINING BRIDGEHEAD METHYL-GROUPS, Tetrahedron letters, 38(36), 1997, pp. 6313-6316
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Tetrahedron letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00404039
Volume
38
Issue
36
Year of publication
1997
Pages
6313 - 6316
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-4039(1997)38:36<6313:RCFC>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The intramolecular hydrogen abstraction by an alkyl radical has been e xploited for the first time in a synthetically useful tandem sequence that gives rise to cis-fused bicyclic systems carrying bridgehead meth yl groups, a structural feature found in numerous natural products. (C ) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.