Helvetica Chimica Acta

Total Synthesis of (±)?螃窿?Acoradiene via Intramolecular Photoaddition and Reductive Cyclobutane Cleavage

W Oppolzer, F Zutterman, K Bättig

Index: Oppolzer, Wolfgang; Zutterman, Freddy; Baettig, Kurt Helvetica Chimica Acta, 1983 , vol. 66, # 2 p. 522 - 533

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Abstract

Abstract (±)-α-Acoradiene (4) has been synthesized from 3-methoxy-2-cyclohexenone by a sequence of 8 steps. The key steps (Scheme 6) are the regio-and stereoselective photo [2+ 2] addition 7 [RIGHTWARDS ARROW] 6 and the reductive fragmentation 6 [RIGHTWARDS ARROW] 5.