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SUBMITTER: Crimmins MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2546580 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crimmins Michael T MT Smith Aaron C AC
Organic letters 20060301 5
The conversion of a substituted dioxinone to a pyrone was used in an improved synthesis of the AB spiroketal subunit of the spongistatins. This transformation occurred via a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of an acyl ketene with butyl vinyl ether. A double diastereoselective Mukaiyama aldol reaction is used to provide the hetero-Diels-Alder precursor. ...[more]