A carbonylative cross-coupling strategy to the total synthesis of the sarcodictyins: Preliminary studies and synthesis of a cyclization precursor

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)01608-2

Preliminary studies were conducted on the implementation of a new strategy to the total synthesis of the common diterpenoid tricyclic skeleton of sarcodictyins and eleutherobin. According to the approach presented, a key retrosynthetic disconnection is de