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Short synthesis of the CDEF ring system of lactonamycin
T Ross Kelly1, Dongcheng Xu, Gabriel Martínez
1E. F. Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA. ross.kelly@bc.edu
Organic Letters
|April 27, 2002
Abstract:
[reaction: see text]. A synthesis of the CDEF fragment of lactonamycin is achieved in eight steps (six pots) from the known and readily available anhydride 4 via a Diels-Alder reaction between tricycle 13 and 2,3-dimethylbenzoquinone.