... Tetrahedron Letters. ... Retrosynthetic analysis of 1 reveals that it can be made easily from the two units 2 and 3. In this letter, we describe the total synthesis of the conagenin (1) using 3-methyl-2-buten-1-ol (4) as a common starting material to build ... Tetrahedron Lett., 42 (2001), ...
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