(6) The chiral 15-(S)-trans-~ inyl iodide precursor (prostaglandin numbering) to organolithium reagent 7b is available either by classical resolution of the tram-halovinyl alcohol [AF Kluge, KG Untch, and JH Fried, J. Am. Chem. SOC., 94, 7827 (1972)] or, more recently, by enantioselective reduction of the trans iodo vinyl ketone with a chiral hydride reducing reagent [R. Noyori, I. Tomino, and M. Nishizawa, ibid., 101, 5843 (1979) l.