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A 4+3 cycloaddition approach to the synthesis of (+/-)-sterpurene
Michael Harmata1, Gary J Bohnert
1Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. harmatam@missouri.edu
Organic Letters
|January 3, 2003
Abstract:
A synthesis of the sesquiterpene sterpurene is presented. Key steps include a 4+3 cycloaddition reaction and a quasi-Favorskii rearrangement. [reaction--see text]