Protocol for Multiple Functionalization of the Peristylane Perimeter. Density Relationships between the 2,4,6-Trione, 2,4,6,8-Tetrone, and Related Isopropylidene Congeners

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00275a017

Details are provided for the synthesis of the tri- and tetraketones in the <4>peristylane series.Access to the latter of these compounds represents arrival at that derivative in which all four available methylene carbons are oxidized.Two approaches to 1 h