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SUBMITTER: Trenkle JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2806845 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trenkle James D JD Jamison Timothy F TF
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20090101 29
Ringing the changes: The total synthesis of the title compound centers around a novel strategy that employs a nickel(0)-phosphine complex and triethyl borane in an efficient closure of a 14-membered ring through C--C bond formation (see scheme; cod=cyclooctadiene). The synthesis was accomplished in 10 steps and in approximately 9 % overall yield. ...[more]