A New Strategy for the Synthesis of Spiro[4,5]decanes: A Formal Total Synthesis of Acorone

Biju, John P and Rao, Subba GSR (1999) A New Strategy for the Synthesis of Spiro[4,5]decanes: A Formal Total Synthesis of Acorone. In: Tetrahedron Letters, 40 (12). pp. 2405-2406.

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Abstract

A new strategy for the construction of spiro[4,5]decanes is described and involves a bridgehead substitution of a methoxyl group in 6 by a methyl group, followed by an oxidative cleavage resulting in a stereogenic spirocentre which culminated in the formal synthesis of acoron

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Tetrahedron Letters
Publisher:	Elsevier Science Ltd.
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science Ltd..
Keywords:	natural sesquiterpenes;spiro[4,5]decanes;synthesis of acoron
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:40
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/12236

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