Pd2+-promoted cyclization in tetracyclic diterpene synthesis highly diastereoselective formal total synthesis of (±)-stemodin

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)73821-4

Intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of the triene 5 and Pd²⁺-promoted cyclization reaction of the olefinic silyl enol ether of 10 have been utilized as the key steps for a conceptually new, highly diastereocontrolled formal total synthesis of (