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Synthesis of (-)-delobanone
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. taberd@del.edu
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|May 12, 2001
Abstract:
On irradiation in the presence of Fe(CO)(5) under a CO atmosphere, the alkenyl cyclopropane 2 underwent smooth ring expansion to give the sesquiterpene (-)-delobabone 3. The alkenyl cyclopropane 2 was prepared from the enantiomerically enriched epoxide 1.