A hydrocarbon oxidation approach has been applied to the construction of several linear (E)- allylic alcohols that have served as intermediates in the synthesis of natural products and natural product-like molecules. In the original syntheses, these intermediates were constructed using a standard Wittig-type olefination approach. We report here that routes to these same intermediates designed around a hydrocarbon oxidation approach are more ...
[Zhan, Weiqiang; Jiang, Yi; Brodie, Peggy J.; Kingston, David G. I.; Liotta, Dennis C.; Snyder, James P. Organic Letters, 2008 , vol. 10, # 8 p. 1565 - 1568]