Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.128, No.4, 1371-1378, 2006
An intramolecular Diels-Alder approach to the eunicellins: Enantioselective total syntheses of ophirin B and astrogorgin
The enantioselective syntheses of the eunicellins ophirin B and astrogorgin have been completed. Ring-closing metatheses provide efficient access to the oxonene rings, and highly diastereoselective intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions resulted in the formation of the hydrobenzofuran portion of the molecules.