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SUBMITTER: Payette JN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2597452 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20060101 1
[reaction: see text] We have proposed a pathway for the base-catalyzed reverse vinylogous aldol reaction of (-)-(4abeta,5beta)-4,4a,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-5-hydroxy-1,4a-dimethylnaphthalen-2(3H)-one [(-)-8] under Robinson annulation conditions. For confirmation, 4-(2,6-dimethyl-3-oxocyclohex-1-enyl)butanal (11) and 4-(2,6-dimethyl-5-oxocyclohex-1-enyl)butanal (12), both of which potentially produce enolate I, were synthesized regioselectively. Unexpectedly, 11 gave a complex mixture, including only a ...[more]