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SUBMITTER: Kaplan HZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6152358 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaplan Hilan Z HZ Rendina Victor L VL Kingsbury Jason S JS
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20170624 7
A stereocontrolled approach to the <i>cis</i>-decalin framework of clerodane diterpenes and biologically active quinone sesquiterpenes is reported. Starting from an inexpensive optically pure tetrahydroindanone, Birch reductive alkylation builds two new contiguous chiral centers-one of which is quaternary and all-carbon-substituted. Also featured is a highly regioselective diazoalkane-carbonyl homologation reaction to prepare the 6,6-bicyclic skeleton. Therein, the utility of Sc(OTf)₃ as a mild ...[more]