... Abstract. A new total synthesis of (±) steganone was completed by a route involving the cyclization of a 2,2′-bis(bromoacyl)biaryl derivative. Download full text in PDF. Tetrahedron Letters,Vo1.22,No.50,pp 5091-5094,1981 0040-4039/81/505091-04$02.00/0 Printed in Great Britain 981 Pergamon Press Ltd. A NEW TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF ( STEGANONE1 Miljenko Mervic, Yehoshua Ben-David and Eugene Ghera* Department of Organic Chemistry, The ...