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The bromopentadienyl acrylate approach to himbacine
Leon S-M Wong1, Lisa A Sharp, Natacha M C Xavier
1School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia.
Organic Letters
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] The syntheses of 4,4a-didehydrohimbacine and 4,4a-didehydrohimandravine are presented. Key steps include an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of a bromopentadienyl acrylate and Suzuki-Miyaura and Stille coupling reactions.