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Asymmetric synthesis of chiral δ-lactones containing multiple contiguous stereocenters
Peed, Jennifer,Perinan Dominguez, Ignacio,Davies, Iwan R.,Cheeseman, Matt,Taylor, James E.,Kociok-Koehn, Gabriele,Bull, Steven D.
, p. 3592 - 3595 (2011/09/21)
A versatile methodology for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral δ-lactones containing multiple contiguous stereocenters has been developed that relies on a series of Evans' aldol, hydroxyl-directed cyclopropanation, methanolysis, and Hg(II) mediated cyclopropane ring-opening reactions for stereocontrol.