Total synthesis of coronafacic acid through 6-endo-trig mode intramolecular cyclization of an enone-aldehyde to a hydrindanone using samarium(II) iodide

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)00786-3

Coronafacic acid has been synthesized from a hydrindanone prepared by a 6-endo-trig mode cyclization reaction of the enone-aldehyde with samarium(II) iodide. The stereochemistry of the hydrindanone was controlled by the coordinated samarium species resulting in cis in respect of the hydroxyl group at C-4 and the juncture proton at C-3a. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.