Total synthesis of (±)-4-epi-helminthosporal
Abstract
(±)-4-Epi-helminthosporal, (2), is synthesised from geranyl chloride and 3-methoxy-1-phenylthiopropyne, by a five stage sequence in which the key step, leading to the bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-ene skeleton, is a zinc chloride catalysed [3 + 2]cycloaddition of an allyl cation to an alkyne.