A new approach to A/B ring analogue of eleutherobin and sarcodictyns through a sequence of highly diastereofaceselective Diels-Alder reaction and ring opening-ring closing metathesis (RO-RCM)

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.04.033

An approach to the construction of A/B ring analogue of antitumour compounds eleutherobin and sarcodictyns is described. The key steps involve a highly diastereofaceselective Diels-Alder reaction of a dienophile containing a furanosugar moiety with cyclop