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SUBMITTER: Spangler JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4168775 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20140910 18
Treatment of (E)-1-(methoxymethylene)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene with styryl diazoacetates in the presence of catalytic amounts of the dirhodium complex Rh2(S-DOSP)4 provides a highly enantioenriched hexacyclic product with 10 new stereogenic centers. The transformation proceeds by a cascade sequence starting with a double cyclopropanation of a benzene ring, followed by a Cope rearrangement of a divinylcyclopropane and then an intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition. ...[more]