The invention of new methods for the construction of fivemembered rings continues to be a problem of considerable importance in organic synthesis. 1 Only a few [4+ 1] annulation strategies have been reported to date, one example being the methodology based on oxyanion and carbanion-accelerated vinylcyclopropane rearrangements developed in our laboratory. 2, 3 In this paper, we now report a stereoselective [4+ 1] annulation strategy for ...
[Howell, James A. S.; O'Leary, Paula J.; Yates, Paul C.; Goldschmidt, Zeev; Gottlieb, Hugo E.; Hezroni-Langerman, Daphna Tetrahedron, 1995 , vol. 51, # 26 p. 7231 - 7246]