(+)-Pleuromutilin Synthetic Studies. Examples of Intramolecular Hydrogen Abstraction by the β-Carbon of a 2-Cyclopentenone Subunit with Resultant α-Coupling

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00242a021

Two bicyclic enones carrying an ether side chain (19 and 22) were irradiated in order to effect photocyclization.Of the several possible pathways available to these molecules, the only process followed is that involving abstraction by the β-carbon of the