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First total synthesis of natural 6-epiplakortolide e
Mankil Jung1, Jungyeob Ham, Jueun Song
1Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea. mkjung@alchemy.yonsei.ac.kr
Organic Letters
|August 3, 2002
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] Natural 6-epiplakortolide E was first synthesized from readily available 1-bromo-10-phenyldecane in 10 steps by using singlet oxygen-mediated Diels-Alder reaction to form cyclic peroxide followed by a directed iodolactonization to give the peroxylactone core.