The Journal Of Organic Chemistry

A new synthesis of cyclopentenones: dihydrojasmone

JB Hendrickson, PS Palumbo

Index: Hendrickson, James B.; Palumbo, Paul S. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 12 p. 2110 - 2112

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Citation Number: 35

Abstract

In a recent report'we described a general synthesis of olefins via the Ramberg-Backlund reaction, 2 utilizing the mesyltriflone reagent 1. This method has now been successfully applied to the synthesis of several natural products. In this paper we describe the synthesis of some cyclopentenones, including dihydrojasmone (5a) and 2, 3-dimethylcyclopentenone (5b), from which methylenomycin B has recently been madeS3 2-Hydroxy-3-methyl-2- ...