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Stereocontrolled total synthesis of (-)-ebelactone A
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK. akm33@cam.ac.uk
Organic Letters
|June 7, 2002
Abstract:
[structure: see text] The highly stereocontrolled hydroboration of an alkene, a subsequent Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction, a silylcupration on a nonterminal acetylene, and an iododesilylation were the key steps in a convergent total synthesis of (-)-ebelactone A.