Tetrahedron letters

Asymmetric synthesis of the tremulane skeleton by a tandem cyclopropanation/cope rearrangement

HML Davies, BD Doan

Index: Davies, Huw M. L.; Doan, Brian D. Tetrahedron Letters, 1996 , vol. 37, # 23 p. 3967 - 3970

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Abstract

A highly diastereoselective and enantioselective 3+ 4 annulation method for the synthesis of polycyclic systems was achieved in a two step sequence consisting of an asymmetric intramolecular cyclopropanation catalyzed by dirhodium (II) tetrakis ((R)-N-(p-(dodecyl)