A short chemoenzymatic synthesis of (+)-Multifidene and (+)-Viridiene

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)02363-1

(+)-Multifidene 1 and (+)-Viridiene 2, the major constituents of some brown algae pheromones, were synthesized in five steps from racemic bicycloheptenone 3 via a novel microbiological Baeyer-Villiger oxidation performed using the fungi Cunninghamella echinulata.