A radical cyclisation based strategy to cuparenoids; synthesis of (+)-α-cuparenone, (+)-epilaurene and laurenes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)81528-3

Mercuric acetate catalysed one pot Claisen rearrangement of the cinnamyl alcohol 5, generated the pent-4-enal 9, which on homologation resulted the hex-5-enal 10. Radical cyclisation of the radical anion derived from 10, followed by oxidation provided the