Taxane diterpene synthesis studies. Part 2: Towards taxinine - enantiospecific construction of an AB-ring substructure incorporating both quaternary carbon centres and attempts to annulate the C-ring

Article abstract of DOI:10.1071/CH03161

In connection with efforts to develop an efficient total synthesis of the biologically active natural product taxinine 1, the enzymatically-derived and monochiral cis-1,2-dihydrocatechol 7 was converted, over several steps including a Diels-Alder cycloadd